Lisa Summers has worked in screening since 2009 when she set up a local Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme (Central England) after working in general management for the same acute Trust since 1996.
She is now employed by Public Health England as national programme manager for the NHS AAA Screening Programme in England. Lisa is an enthusiastic outgoing manager who relishes the day to day challenges of her role and collaborative working with colleagues in the other 10 screening programmes.
Lisa lives in Market Bosworth and enjoys walking and socialising when not running around organising her two young children!
...discuss potential solutions. Programme for the day and how to register Information on the day will include: national updates the level 3 diploma for health screeners and available resources reaccreditation...
...is due to go live in April 2018. By then, providers and commissioners will have had the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the deprivation and ethnicity reporting functions in the...
More than 100 abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening professionals attended this year’s national AAA screening networking event.
Back in September I wrote a blog post explaining how local abdominal aortic aneurysm screening (AAA) programmes can obtain NHS numbers when screening men in prisons. AAA scan taking place...
...to monitor and review the KPIs regularly to ensure they drive improvements in performance and remain relevant. PHE Screening blogs PHE Screening blogs provide up to date news from all...
NHS Screening Programmes offers screening to all eligible patients within a defined population. However, ensuring equality of access to services for patient groups with specific needs can be challenging.
...should monitor the outcome of all your referrals in order to show how well the screening programme is working. How does this work in the NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)...
The national screening programmes are fundamentally equitable, offering a test to everyone in a given population – whether that is pregnant women (antenatal programmes), all people with diabetes aged 12...
...cause of death in cases where no cause has been confirmed. We appreciate that this might mean a lot of work chasing post mortem results, death certificates and GP or...