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.
Going the extra mile to provide equitable AAA screening service
NHS Screening Programmes offers screening to all eligible patients within a defined population. However, ensuring equality of access to services for patient groups with specific needs can be challenging.
We’re calling a favour from our helpdesk callers (and from those who have emailed us)
If you’ve contacted the screening helpdesk recently, you may have noticed, and you may have even completed, our user survey.
Best practice guidance published for AAA screening nurse specialists
Posted by:
Patrick Rankin, Posted on:
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NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme
The nurse specialist is an important role in the NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme.
Newborn blood spot (NBS) screening celebrates the first anniversary of programme expansion
...protocols 4 diagnostic protocols 4 clinical management guidelines 4 initial clinical referral guidelines and standards an IMD laboratory handbook (135 pages!) expanded screening e-learning videos and slides resource cards for...
Promoting screening and immunisation through the healthy child programme
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Sharon Webb and Robert Sherriff, Posted on:
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NHS Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy Screening Programme, NHS Newborn and Infant Physical Examination, NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme, NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme
The 'Healthy child programme to 19: health visitor and school nurse commissioning service specifications and guidance' are now available This suite of 4 documents contains the following commissioning guides: Background...
Sign up now for 2016 national diabetic eye screening conference
If you work in diabetic eye screening or have an interest in the programme then I suggest you save the following date in your diary: Friday 22 April.
Screening algorithms for trusts that merge in the sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) screening programme
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Cathy Coppinger, Posted on:
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NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme
...definition for each laboratory, we collated several years’ worth of antenatal data on screen positive women (carriers). This was more fruitful than using the newborn data, as we had done...
Antenatal and newborn screening: sharing best practice across London
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Alison Fiddler, Posted on:
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NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme, NHS Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy Screening Programme, NHS Newborn and Infant Physical Examination, NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme, NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme, NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme, Screening Quality Assurance Service
All women and babies should have access to high quality antenatal and newborn screening programmes.
2016-17 service specifications published for NHS screening programmes
...services under section 7A of the National Health Service Act 2006. The new screening specifications include changes to the national programmes in 2016-17. The specifications are important reading for those...
Success of the new sonographer training package is set to continue
...I am confident this will improve standards overall. Sonographer, South West. The training was very valuable and well organised. Thank you. Sonographer, West Midlands. We’re now halfway through our programme...