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.
It’s so helpful to share learning from safety incidents in screening
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Mandy Staffer, Posted on:
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NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme, Screening Quality Assurance Service
Antenatal and newborn screening coordinator shares learning from a screening safety incident in the fetal anomaly screening programme.
Horses for courses: where’s the right website?
In the 3 years I’ve been working on digital projects for PHE Screening we have seen a huge amount of change to our online presence. Over the last few years, we’ve: changed where to find programme guidance introduced the blog for …
We’ve published first annual fetal anomaly screening data report
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Nadia Permalloo and Annette McHugh, Posted on:
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NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme
We are pleased to publish the first annual data report for the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP).
We have published the first annual data report for the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP). It covers the period 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016 and provides feedback on completeness of data submission and performance against the national standards.
Screening KPI data published for 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017
We have published the annual screening data for the non-cancer key performance indicators (KPIs) for the 2016 to 2017 screening year (1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017).
Experts by experience are central to development of easy read screening information
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Deborah Rees and Sharon Ashby, Posted on:
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General information, NHS Breast Screening Programme
The PHE Screening easy read information expert group met again to look at updating our easy read breast screening information and developing new easy read screening invitation letters.
User guide published for newborn blood spot failsafe solution
We have published a new user guide for the newborn blood spot failsafe solution on GOV.UK.
What PHE Screening blogged about in October 2017
In case you missed any of them, these are the blog articles we published during the month of October 2017.
Women with learning disabilities are least likely to attend breast cancer screening – except in Cornwall
Women with a learning disability who are eligible for breast screening are the least likely to attend, even though it can save their life.
Easy guide to bowel scope screening published
Today we’ve published our new easy guide to bowel scope screening to ensure information about bowel screening is equally accessible to people with learning disabilities and anyone who struggles with written English.
Sickle cell and thalassaemia counselling course increases knowledge and confidence
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Nicola Pilkington, Posted on:
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NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme
Local screening coordinator praises sickle cell and thalassaemia genetic risk and counselling course. Bursaries are available for the next course in 2018.