UK National Screening Committee
...treat more cancers early in their development human papillomavirus (HPV) testing as the first stage in the cervical screening programme. This is a better way of identifying women at risk...
Watch Dr Anne Mackie, director of screening in Public Health England, reflecting on 2015, calling it "a particularly exciting year for screening". Please note that you can turn on subtitles for this video.
I must admit that I didn’t sleep very well last Tuesday. I was a little worried about the first UK National Screening Committee stakeholder conference (which I've been helping to organise) at the Oval conference centre the day after. Would …
...evidence from the piloting of human papillomavirus (HPV) primary screening by the cervical screening programme ongoing implementation of bowel scope screening that should save many lives expansion of newborn blood...
...an existing screening programme. It also describes how the committee and supporting secretariat will consider the applications. This means that anyone will be able to suggest a potential new screening...
...haven’t received it then do check your email spam box. The first set of invitations went out to stakeholders with a specific interest in the morning topics (atrial fibrillation, blood...
Non-invasive prenatal testing (now more commonly called cfDNA, or cell-free DNA testing) is an exciting development and the UK NSC is now consulting on introducing it to the existing fetal...
The UK’s processes and standards for reviewing screening policy and making screening recommendations are recognised and respected as world leading.
I'm sure we'd all say that it's important to listen but sometimes we only do it with half an ear – or perhaps not at all. After all, not only...
...of these five conditions, benefit to the wider population could not be clearly demonstrated. For example, the best current test for bladder cancer has a high false positive rate, meaning...
