Celebrating best practice in cervical screening
Have you thought about sharing best practice by entering the Jo’s Trust Cervical Screening Awards? Find out more in our blog.
Developing newborn screening for sickle cell disease in Nigeria
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Nasara Danmaida Ifere and Larai Diana Gwani, Posted on:
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NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme
Guest bloggers Larai Diana Gwani and Nasara Danmaida Ifere from Nigeria learned lots during a recent visit. Find out what made the biggest impression on them.
Helping health professionals support personal informed choice in screening
Check out our new video about informed choice featuring a national screening expert Dr Louise Bryant.
Join us for sickle cell and thalassaemia study days
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Abisola Oyewole-Eletu, Posted on:
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NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme, NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme
Register now for free programme update study days offered by the NHS sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) screening programme.
Health screener diploma giving me valuable knowledge and skills
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Jiten Patel, Posted on:
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NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme, NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme, NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme
The level 3 health screener diploma is the recommended training programme for any new screeners in the diabetic eye, abdominal aortic aneurysm and newborn hearing screening programmes. Here a trainee screener talks about his experiences of working his way through it.
What quality looks like when offering screening
What quality looks like in making offers for population-based screening is an important question given that screening brings potential harms as well as possible benefits. This blog post is about a discussion involving experts to probe that very question — and what it revealed.
GP-endorsed text reminders help increase cervical screening attendance in London
A 6-month trial in London shows that text message reminders can help increase the number of women taking up the offer of cervical screening by nearly 5%.
Improving diabetic eye screening uptake in the young
It’s a well-known fact that young people’s engagement with diabetic eye screening could be better. Here's a fascinating account of how one area has been driving up screening attendance.
Screening data and information objectives
Standards are one of the ways we can see how well national screening programmes are performing. Find out how the data team at PHE will be working to publish high-quality information on screening in 2019/20.
Important learning points from screening support sonographers’ workshops
Feedback from a workshop for screening sonographers highlighted a number of areas for shared learning and improvement