Updated screening information for GPs and other primary care staff
Public Health England has updated its screening information for GPs and practice staff on GOV.UK.
Dr Jim McMorran
Jim is a GP in a busy urban practice in Coventry and editor for GPnotebook. He is also chronic conditions lead for his clinical commissioning group (CCG). He has been working with the NHS screening programmes to help to bring a primary care perspective to developments in screening.
New screening e-learning content published for GPs
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NHS Cervical Screening Programme, NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme, NHS Newborn and Infant Physical Examination, NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme
The Royal College of GPs (RCGP) has published new e-learning content, in conjunction with PHE Screening, that gives GPs and primary care colleagues practical guidance to support patients in understanding and accessing the NHS screening programmes.
GPs’ duty to share information can be just as important as duty to protect confidentiality
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General information, NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme
GPs have access to highly sensitive personal information and take their ethical and legal duties of confidentiality very seriously. However, it is important for them to remember the Caldicott principle that the duty to share information can be just as important as the duty to protect confidentiality.
GPs’ role in helping people decide whether they want screening
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General information, NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme, NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, NHS Breast Screening Programme, NHS Cervical Screening Programme
It’s important GPs help ensure everyone gets the information they need in order to decide if screening is the right thing for them depending on their circumstances.
New home test kit for bowel cancer screening: what GPs need to know
The programme will introduce a new improved home test kit for screening from April 2018. It is call a faecal immunochemical test (FIT) and it will replace the guaiac faecal occult blood test (gFOBt). It’s important that GPs and others working in primary care understand this change to the screening programme and its implications for their patients, so here is a brief summary.
What GPs need to know about the introduction of primary HPV testing in cervical screening
Cervical screening saves an estimated 5,000 lives a year by detecting abnormalities of the cervix early and referring women for effective treatment.
GPs can help patients engage with bowel cancer screening
Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK and the second leading cause of cancer deaths.
GP practices benefit from GP2DRS diabetic eye screening data extraction system
Diabetic eye screening is an integral component of diabetes care, which helps prevent or reduce sight loss among people with diabetes. But diabetic eye screening services rely on GPs to identify people with diabetes over 12, the age at which …
GPs: what you need to know about sickle cell and thalassaemia screening
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NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme
In his latest PHE Screening blog post written for his fellow GPs, Dr Jim McMorran looks at primary care issues relating to sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) screening.
GPs can help ensure babies don't miss out on newborn blood spot screening
In his second blog post written for his fellow GPs, Dr Jim McMorran looks at newborn blood spot screening – more commonly known as the heel prick test.