The NHS Breast Screening Programme (NHSBSP) is perhaps a victim of its own success.
I lead on learning disabilities for the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi). It's important to note that all organisations providing NHS or public funded adult social care must have fully implemented the Accessible Information Standard by the end of July.
It takes a large army of staff to make screening programmes work well. Today, we start a series of blog articles highlighting some of their roles. Pat Schan talks about her job as antenatal and newborn screening coordinator at Western …
June 2016 heralded the first birthday of the PHE Screening blog and what a fruitful year of blogging it has been.
Background All eligible pregnant women in England are offered screening for Down’s, Edwards’ and Patau’s syndromes. Staff must fully complete the laboratory request form with the correct information to enable the screening laboratory to process the sample without delay and …
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Download the Primary care screening letter May 2016. Note this version has been slightly changed on 31 May to clarify the figures quoted in the final section, on GP endorsement of bowel cancer screening letters. I'm Dr Anne Mackie, Director of …
We have published the key performance indicator (KPI) non-cancer screening data for the third quarter of 2015 to 2016 (1 October 2015 to 31 December 2015). KPIs are used to measure how the NHS screening programmes are performing and aim to give a …
Harlow Printing Ltd has printed, stored and distributed the antenatal and newborn (ANNB) and young person and adult (YPA) screening publications for a number of years already. Now it's providing the same service for the breast, cervical and bowel cancer screening programmes.
Developing easy read information isn’t easy. That’s why we’ve set up a new group to look at how to develop high quality national easy read information about screening.