Professor Anne Mackie is the Director of Screening for Public Health England.
Anne has worked in Public Health for nearly 20 years across London and the South East. Previous roles have included medical director of the National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group, Director of Public Health in Kent and Director of Public Health in South West London. Latterly Anne was Director of Public Health for London SHA before taking on her current post in August 2007. She lives in London with her partner and their daughter.
Professor Anne Mackie thanks everyone involved in delivering the NHS screening programmes during an exceptionally challenging year.
Register now for the free national PHE Screening Inequalities Conference on Friday 5 February 2021
A small, dedicated team in the PHE Screening division is coordinating and leading on work to address inequalities in screening access and uptake.
It's hard to believe it's been a year since the last annual call, but the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) is once again open to ideas for new population screening programmes.
For the time being this blog will focus on essential information to help support screening services.
We are pleased to announce the publication of new guidance for pathologists who report cervical biopsy samples for the NHS Cervical Screening Programme.
It's that time when you have the opportunity to propose a new health screening programme which could be implemented across the whole of the UK.
Moving towards digital methods for providing screening information presents an opportunity for us to be innovative and add value to local screening services.
Professor Sir Mike Richards has been asked to conduct a major review of the English cancer screening programmes as part of a renewed drive to improve care and save lives. Please make any submissions by 18 April.
A reminder for primary care colleagues about Public Health England's current cervical screening campaign and information about how to access women's screening results (which are not available from the PHE Screening helpdesk).