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Don’t let good intentions undermine population screening principles
PHE Director of Screening Professor Anne Mackie explains that it is important that healthcare policy makers do not risk undermining or overlapping with NHS population screening.
screening benefits and risks
Our 8th successful health screening masters module
A course tutor on the ever popular health screening masters module at the University of Warwick talks about the course and what it offers.
Tackling screening inequalities in Merseyside
Between 2014 and 2017 Marie Coughlin was the lead officer for the Merseyside Cancer Screening Plan. She shares how she helped raise awareness of screening, particularly within vulnerable and hard to reach groups.
A reminder about private screening and a last opportunity to order leaflets about it
We still have 1,500 copies left of our leaflet about private screening for the public. We won’t be transferring them to our new print provider so if you’d like some leaflets please order them by 16 March.
GPs’ role in helping people decide whether they want screening
It’s important GPs help ensure everyone gets the information they need in order to decide if screening is the right thing for them depending on their circumstances.
Cervical Cancer Prevention Week 2018
Cervical cancer is preventable and the impact of a diagnosis is far reaching both emotionally and physically. Screening is a choice that is available to all women, and by raising awareness we are ensuring women receive the information to help them make an informed choice.
UK NSC stakeholders learn how we turn screening requests into practice
Last month we held the third annual UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) stakeholder event.
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.
Videos worth watching: Sir Muir Gray (part 2)
Watch the second part of Sir Muir Gray’s keynote speech from last year’s stakeholder conference.
Poo sticks saved my life, says bowel cancer screening fan Shane
This year, on 17 July, I went to Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) for a colonoscopy. For the uninitiated it’s where a highly trained individual sticks a camera up your bottom. Take it from me, it’s really quite painless, …