This is the second in a series of blogs looking at work in Merseyside to tackle cancer screening inequalities. This article looks at breast and cervical screening initiatives.
The Cambridgeshire AAA Screening Programme has used a variety of methods to help reduce DNA (did not attend) rates in the city of Peterborough.
We published a whopping 24 articles on the PHE Screening blog during March 2019. In case you missed any of them, here is a quick round-up of what we blogged about along with links to the full articles.
Kate Israel has thoroughly enjoyed her secondment with PHE working in the newborn blood spot team. Here she looks back at her time with us.
A new set of guides for users of the sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) newborn outcomes IT system have just been published.
Find out what was discussed at the fourth national AAA screening research day event in Newcastle.
A reminder for antenatal screening laboratories to use the standard templates to let pregnant women know about low chance fetal anomaly screening results.
A reminder about GDPR implications for child vision screening and clarification that schools do not need the permission of parents before they can share children’s data with the providers of school health services.
Support from Public Health England screening is helping medical researchers from the University of Leicester identify treatments which could potentially be used to reduce the numbers of men with life-threatening abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) needing surgery. The research, funded by …
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