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The UK National Screening Committee has published 11 recommendations including improvements to existing screening programmes.
Includes: new meningococcal disease vaccine programmes, new STI figures and national screening programme recommendations.
The UK National Screening Committee upheld its recommendation against screening programme for bladder cancer, following a review.
The combined newsletter of the NHS non cancer screening programmes. These updates cover adult, young people, antenatal and newborn screening programmes in England.
Outlines the community outreach work delivered by the screening programme since 2005, and how it was researched, planned, implemented and evaluated.
PHE publishes its first annual data for the NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening programme for screening centres across England.
PHE figures show that the roll out target of screening centres offering the latest bowel cancer screening test has been exceeded.
Interactive website helps older male patients decide whether to take up the offer of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening on the NHS.
Separate study suggests South Asian women should no longer be considered at low risk of breast cancer.
One in three people are embarrassed to talk to their doctor about poo even though having blood in poo is a key symptom of bowel cancer which can kill.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
A short factsheet to support GPs in the first NHS national bowel cancer symptom awareness campaign in England is available.
The Royal Society of Medicine warn that women are being ‘kept in the dark’ about the risks associated with NHS breast cancer screening.
Letter from Paul Burstow dated 23 September 2020, informing colleagues on plans to run large-scale pilot campaigns to promote early diagnosis of bowel cancer.
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