Natalie is Professor of Healthcare Improvement Research in the Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester. She currently holds a Health Foundation Improvement Science Fellowship, which she is using to explore issues of overdiagnosis and overtreatment and how these can be tackled at the health system level. She is a member of the UK National Screening Committee’s Adult Reference Group and its Ethics Task Force.
What quality looks like in making offers for population-based screening is an important question given that screening brings potential harms as well as possible benefits. This blog post is about a discussion involving experts to probe that very question — and what it revealed.