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.
UK NSC stakeholders learn how we turn screening requests into practice
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Zeenat Mauthoor, Posted on:
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General information, UK National Screening Committee
Last month we held the third annual UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) stakeholder event.
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Education and training: now on GOV.UK
...hasn’t moved – you can still access it through the CPD website. Chapter 2 of the NHSP operational guidance document is about education and training Level 3 diploma for health...
New guidance to help cervical screening providers reduce cytology backlogs
PHE Screening has published guidance for laboratories and local cervical screening providers to support the option of mitigating against the risk of longer cytology backlogs by using primary HPV screening pilot sites.
Breast screening programme publishes 2 new best practice guides for mammographers
...may need to be a repeat examination or a recall to a second appointment for technical reasons to obtain an image of appropriate quality. Technical recall and repeat examinations The...
Don’t run out of leaflets over Christmas!
If your screening service needs to put in any last-minute pre-Christmas leaflet orders, the message is: make sure you get them to national print supplier Harlow Printing Ltd before 20 December.
New duty of candour toolkit published to support breast services
The newly published ‘Breast screening: interval cancers and duty of candour toolkit’ advises health professionals on how to communicate information on interval cancers to women who were previously screened in the programme.
Away day highlights importance of working together when managing screening incidents
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Sheila Miller, Posted on:
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General information, Screening Quality Assurance Service
...share ideas. This is only possible with good communication, which subsequently drives up and maintains quality improvements. It’s important to share and acknowledge the good work that is already taking...
HPV primary screening implementation: NHS England announces next steps
...hard work in this time of change. Information updates NHS England will provide further updates on the different stages in the procurement as we move further into the planning and...
Date set for 2018 AAA screening national networking day
...service (SQAS) regional team staff and public health commissioners. At next year’s event, we will feed back on the development and launch of the national AAA screening inequalities toolkit, which...