Professor Anne Mackie

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.

The UK National Screening Committee: Positive Recommendations

Professor Anne Mackie, 15 January 2016 - NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, NHS Cervical Screening Programme, NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme, NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme, UK National Screening Committee

...recommended against screening for a number of other conditions. These included congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) in newborns, glaucoma, hearing loss in older adults, mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I), neuroblastoma in...

Reports celebrate exciting and productive year for NHS screening programmes

Professor Anne Mackie, 9 December 2015 - General information, UK National Screening Committee

...evidence from the piloting of human papillomavirus (HPV) primary screening by the cervical screening programme ongoing implementation of bowel scope screening that should save many lives expansion of newborn blood...

Primary care population screening update, autumn 2015

Professor Anne Mackie, 2 November 2015 - General information, NHS Cervical Screening Programme, Prostate cancer risk management

Download the primary care screening letter. I'm Dr Anne Mackie, Director of Screening at PHE. This is our first letter to GPs in England. We know you're busy – we...

New UK National Screening Committee evidence process published

Professor Anne Mackie, 21 October 2015 - General information, UK National Screening Committee

...programme. There is guidance in the document about how to go about this and the sort of high level evidence that the secretariat will need to be able to consider...

Are you coming to our first ever UK NSC conference?

Professor Anne Mackie, 6 October 2015 - UK National Screening Committee

...three topics we’ve chosen are atrial fibrillation, expanded newborn blood spot screening and preterm labour. But don’t worry if you’re not involved in these areas as much of the information...

Listening to what people think of the UK National Screening Committee

Professor Anne Mackie, 28 July 2015 - UK National Screening Committee

...to so many people who have so many different perspectives on screening. It's helped out to refine our understanding and description of what distinguishes systematic population screening programmes from other...

Why saying no to screening can be a good thing

Professor Anne Mackie, 8 July 2015 - UK National Screening Committee

...the governments of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Recommendations usually get published 6 weeks after each UK NSC meeting to give enough time for ministers in each country to...

Cancer and non-cancer screening joining forces

Professor Anne Mackie, 24 June 2015 - General information

...touch with our stakeholders I’d also like to welcome everyone to this, our new screening blog. I’ll still be writing articles on wider screening issues on the Public Health Matters...

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