Registration opens for third annual UK NSC stakeholder event
Registration has opened for this year's UK NSC stakeholder event on 24 November.
UK National Screening Committee
Is there a health condition we should consider for screening?
...provide feedback. Second annual call for topics Any organisation or individual can make a proposal, providing that: the condition is not already on the UK NSC list of health screening...
Can you tell the difference between the UK NSC and PHE? And does it matter?
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Nick Johnstone-Waddell, Posted on:
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General information, UK National Screening Committee
...or those where there is an existing screening programme – and makes independent recommendations to government ministers in the 4 UK countries. It doesn’t make policy (that’s what ministers do)...
New UK-wide public information group getting to work
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Jo Harcombe, Posted on:
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General information, UK National Screening Committee
Last August we wrote about the new UK-wide public information group. It was formed on the recommendation of the Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee to join up the great work on public screening information happening in each of the 4 …
Newborn pulse oximetry screening pilot update
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Claire Evans, Posted on:
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NHS Newborn and Infant Physical Examination, UK National Screening Committee
The quick and painless pulse oximetry screening test can help detect whether there is enough oxygen in a newborn baby’s blood.
Top 10 posts from 2016 – a bumper year for our blog
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Denise Dixon, Posted on:
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General information, UK National Screening Committee
2016 was a bumper year for the PHE Screening blog – which is now the 6th most subscribed blog across government.
Review of 2016: a year of major landmarks for screening
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Professor Anne Mackie, Posted on:
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General information, UK National Screening Committee
In the short video below, Dr Anne Mackie, Director of Screening for Public Health England, reflects on screening's achievements during 2016.
20 years of the UK NSC: thoughts on the 2016 annual stakeholder conference
It’s hard to believe it's a year since the first UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) conference, in December 2015.
Driving forward research into GBS
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is an important cause of illness in babies, children and elderly adults. It remains the commonest infection that causes serious illness in newborn babies.
Addition of non-invasive test to improve screening for pregnant women
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Professor Anne Mackie, Posted on:
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NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme, UK National Screening Committee
...hospitals that will be involved initially and the results and information to be collected during the evaluation process and beyond. Deciding what to do after receiving a positive screening test...