primary care

New home test kit for bowel cancer screening: what GPs need to know

Posted by: Dr Jim McMorran, Posted on: 4 August 2017 - Categories: NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme

The programme will introduce a new improved home test kit for screening from April 2018. It is call a faecal immunochemical test (FIT) and it will replace the guaiac faecal occult blood test (gFOBt). It’s important that GPs and others working in primary care understand this change to the screening programme and its implications for their patients, so here is a brief summary.

What GPs need to know about the introduction of primary HPV testing in cervical screening

Posted by: Dr Jim McMorran, Posted on: 14 June 2017 - Categories: NHS Cervical Screening Programme

Cervical screening saves an estimated 5,000 lives a year by detecting abnormalities of the cervix early and referring women for effective treatment.

GPs can help patients engage with bowel cancer screening

Posted by: Dr Jim McMorran, Posted on: 18 January 2017 - Categories: NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme

Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK and the second leading cause of cancer deaths.

National support offered to trusts implementing NIPE SMART

Posted by: Jill Walker, Posted on: 11 October 2016 - Categories: NHS Newborn and Infant Physical Examination

A total of 111 out of 139 maternity trusts are now using the NIPE SMART IT system.

International delegates told of HPV primary screening rollout challenges

Posted by: Ruth Stubbs, Posted on: 6 October 2016 - Categories: NHS Cervical Screening Programme

PHE screening team members and clinicians attended the 40th European Congress of Cytology in Liverpool.