It's really important that NHS services listen to the people who actually use them - patients and members of the public. Otherwise we could end up with services that look great on paper but...
The breast, bowel and cervical screening programmes require consultant pathologists and other specialist laboratory staff to take part in ‘external quality assessment’ or EQA. But what is EQA exactly?
We have published the new consolidated standards for the NHS Breast Screening Programme.
We have updated the national diabetic eye screening (DES) pathway standards.
Over the past few months, the NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia (SCT) Screening Programme has consulted widely with colleagues from a range of services, including midwifery, specialist nurses and clinicians, screening laboratories, and patient organisations to help us revise and …
In 1988, the UK implemented the first national breast screening programme following evidence published in the Forrest Report.
Over the past few months, we’ve consulted widely with clinical, laboratory and quality assurance colleagues to help revise the newborn blood spot screening standards.
Some of us in Public Health England (PHE), myself included, have worked in screening a long time.
Diabetic eye screening is an integral component of diabetes care, which helps prevent or reduce sight loss among people with diabetes. But diabetic eye screening services rely on GPs to identify people with diabetes over 12, the age at which …
The role of the screening technician in measuring the diameter of the aorta is essential to the success of the NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Screening Programme.