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.
Help us make the UK NSC recommendations webpage better!
When we transitioned our old websites to GOV.UK last year, there was some content left over for the next phase of work. This was because it required a bit more thought in terms of how to best make it available. …
Diabetic eye screening staff and patients: tell us what you need from a national IT system
High quality IT support is essential for the provision and ongoing improvement of every national screening programme.
The UK National Screening Committee: Positive Recommendations
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Professor Anne Mackie, Posted on:
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NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, NHS Cervical Screening Programme, NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme, NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme, UK National Screening Committee
...recommended against screening for a number of other conditions. These included congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) in newborns, glaucoma, hearing loss in older adults, mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I), neuroblastoma in...
Cervical screening: what the statistics indicate
...I hope this report will be useful to them in planning their future work in this important area. Further information on the 2014-15 Cervical Screening publication can be found here:...
Exciting year ahead for cervical screening programme
I'm Ruth Stubbs, the recently appointed national programme manager for the NHS Cervical Screening Programme (CSP). As you know from previous blogs, changes within PHE have seen all 11 NHS screening programmes brought together into a single screening division. The …
Screening Support Sonographers’ electronic resources go live
We, the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP), have continued our development of resources for screening support sonographers (SSS).
PHE Screening blog survey: your chance to tell us how we’re doing
Are we blogging brilliant or are our blogs a blunder? We’ve designed a short survey for you to tell us what you think of our blogs.
Which blogs were popular in 2015?
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Nick Johnstone-Waddell, Posted on:
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General information, NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme, NHS Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy Screening Programme, NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme, NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme
Firstly, a very happy new year to all readers of the PHE Screening blog! The end of December is traditionally a time to reflect on the previous year and I'm sure many of you will have read many such articles …
Review of 2015: "a particularly exciting year for screening"
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Nick Johnstone-Waddell, Posted on:
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Categories:
General information, NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme, NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme, UK National Screening Committee
Watch Dr Anne Mackie, director of screening in Public Health England, reflecting on 2015, calling it "a particularly exciting year for screening". Please note that you can turn on subtitles for this video.
Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP): gestational age parameters
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Annette McHugh, Nadia Permalloo and Sheila Miller, Posted on:
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NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme, Screening Quality Assurance Service
In our last FASP blog we looked at the ‘twice on the couch’ guidance for the first trimester combined test. We now want to raise awareness of the gestational age...