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Changes ahead for the national screening system

Changes ahead for the national screening system

Details of changes to the national screening system from 1 October, due to the closure of Public Health England.

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Tackling shortages in the breast imaging workforce

Posted by: Dr Mary Wilson, Posted on: 22 January 2020 - Categories: NHS Breast Screening Programme
A woman smiling at the camera standing against a blue green background - Dr Mary Wilson

Working together to increase the breast screening programme imaging workforce

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A handy guide to saving shortcuts on smartphone home screens

Posted by: Jonny Fertray, Posted on: 21 January 2020 - Categories: General information
A smartphone home screen with a shortcut to a Screening leaflet

We’ve created a short guide on how to create shortcuts to screening resources.

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Living with PKU – a parent's perspective

Posted by: Caroline Bridges, Posted on: 20 January 2020 - Categories: NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme
Hannah on the cover of two PKU parent leaflets

As part of our special series on 50 years of newborn blood spot screening, Caroline Bridges shares her daughter's screening story and tells us what life is like living with PKU.

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Guidance updated on PSA testing for prostate cancer

Posted by: Elizabeth Rimmer, Posted on: 20 January 2020 - Categories: Prostate cancer risk management
The infographic in the updated publication that helps explain the PSA test to men

We have published updated guidance for GPs and well men aged 50 and over about prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing for prostate cancer.

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A trip down memory lane for newborn blood spot screening

Posted by: Lucy Pylypiw, Posted on: 16 January 2020 - Categories: NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme
Members of the Inherited Metabolic Disease Screening Advisory Board gathered for a photo

As part of our special series on 50 years of newborn blood spot screening, we’re excited to share some insights into the programme's early days from Professor Anne Green and Professor Rodney Pollitt.

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How Leicestershire used national resources to tackle AAA screening inequalities

Posted by: Annette Olalobo, Posted on: 16 January 2020 - Categories: NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme
The 7 members of the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland AAA screening programme team.

How the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening programme used a quality assurance (QA) visit to tackle inequalities.

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Newborn blood spot screening turns 50

Posted by: Lucy Pylypiw, Posted on: 15 January 2020 - Categories: NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme
A group of images showing an old style blood spot card, a current blood spot card and extracts from a leaflet called '‘Early PKU detection in the hospital’ by Dr Robert Guthrie, 1961

We're marking 50 years of screening for phenylketonuria (PKU) in newborn babies with a special series of blog posts. We start by looking back at how it all started.

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Diabetic eye screening extended intervals: what will people need to know?

Posted by: Amanda Grange, Posted on: 15 January 2020 - Categories: NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme
A woman having an eye test taken.

Help us make sure the information we provide about extending diabetic eye screening people for low risk people is fit for purpose.

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Sign up now for 2020 national diabetic eye screening conference

Posted by: Patrick Rankin, Posted on: 14 January 2020 - Categories: NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme
The national diabetic eye screening conference 2020 poster

Register now for the 7th diabetic eye screening conference with the RSM on Friday 24th April.

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First cervical screening annual standards report published

Posted by: Philippa Pearmain and Ruth Stubbs, Posted on: 14 January 2020 - Categories: NHS Cervical Screening Programme
Front cover of cervical screening standards report

PHE Screening is delighted to publish its first annual data report on the national cervical screening programme standards, focusing on performance in England from 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019.

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Public Health England (PHE) existed to protect and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities. It closed on 30 September 2021 and this blog is no longer updated.

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