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My 30 years in screening, a personal journey involving hypnotic dancing, Mickey Mouse ears and Lancaster bombers
Lindsay Kimm reflects on her 30 years of working in population screening programmes.
views from the front line
How we’ve improved newborn hearing screening and reduced parental anxiety
The NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme screens babies during the first few weeks of their lives to find those who are born with hearing loss.
Clinical skills trainers: register now for national AAA screening event
The NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme is delighted to confirm that we will be hosting a networking day aimed specifically at clinical skills trainers (CSTs) on 2 March 2018.
Clinical skills trainer challenges for AAA screening providers
Local providers face an ongoing challenge to make sure they have enough clinical skills trainer capacity to support AAA screening technicians.
Fascinating insights and entertaining performances at first national diabetic eye screening networking day
The inaugural NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme networking day enabled people from across the world of diabetic eye screening to network with colleagues and get operational updates from the national programme team.
Away day highlights importance of working together when managing screening incidents
It never ceases to amaze me what we can accomplish when we get the right people in the room. Around 50 delegates from the Screening quality Assurance Service (SQAS) North and Screening and Immunisation Teams (SITs) in the region along with Jane Woodland, Regional Head of QA Midlands and East, and newborn blood spot (NBS) laboratory directors attended a recent away day event.
Experts by experience are central to development of easy read screening information
The PHE Screening easy read information expert group met again to look at updating our easy read breast screening information and developing new easy read screening invitation letters.
Women with learning disabilities are least likely to attend breast cancer screening – except in Cornwall
Women with a learning disability who are eligible for breast screening are the least likely to attend, even though it can save their life.
Sickle cell and thalassaemia counselling course increases knowledge and confidence
Local screening coordinator praises sickle cell and thalassaemia genetic risk and counselling course. Bursaries are available for the next course in 2018.
Improving early access to sickle cell and thalassaemia screening
Early access to sickle cell and thalassaemia screening and the early offer of prenatal diagnosis (PND) is important in giving women and couples time to consider their options.