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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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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It’s nearly Christmas and as we get ready for fun and the festive onslaught we thought we’d take a quick look back over the year’s most memorable news and achievements brought to you by the one and only PHE Screening blog…
Education and training: now on GOV.UK
Information about education and training for the NHS Screening Programmes is now on GOV.UK. This includes guidance and resources previously found on the CPD Screening website.
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
We have published 2 new guidance documents to support mammographers who work in the breast screening programme.
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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General information, Screening Quality Assurance Service
It never ceases to amaze me what we can accomplish when we get the right people in the room. Around 50 delegates from the Screening quality Assurance Service (SQAS) North and Screening and Immunisation Teams (SITs) in the region along with Jane Woodland, Regional Head of QA Midlands and East, and newborn blood spot (NBS) laboratory directors attended a recent away day event.
HPV primary screening implementation: NHS England announces next steps
NHS England has published a statement regarding commissioning decisions for HPV primary screening in the cervical screening programme.
Date set for 2018 AAA screening national networking day
We will be holding our next annual national AAA screening networking day on 27 June 2018.