Breast screening: we want your views on new mammography apprenticeship
PHE Screening has been involved in a new initiative to develop an apprenticeship route for women to enter the mammography profession. The apprenticeship is for the new role of ‘associate mammographer’,...
View ArticleVideos worth watching: Dr Henrietta Campbell
Through our blog and Twitter channels we try to keep information coming to you in different formats and from the voices of everyone involved in screening. Sometimes, videos are worth revisiting after...
View ArticleOur latest screening report highlights successes and areas for improvement
The 11 NHS screening programmes in England play a vital role in protecting and improving the public’s health. Today we’ve published our report that celebrates the achievements of these world-leading...
View ArticleExciting opportunity to chair new screening quality assurance advisory committee
Do you have exceptional leadership and motivational skills? Are you a successful clinician/academic with a track record in screening or quality improvement? Could you chair a new advisory committee? If...
View ArticleScreening KPIs: quarter 1 2017 to 2018 data and other updates
We have published new and improved key performance indicator (KPI) data packs. We use the KPIs to measure how the NHS screening programmes are performing and they aim to give a high level overview of...
View ArticleHave your say on the future of the screening quality assurance service
The screening quality assurance service (SQAS): assesses the quality of local screening programmes monitors compliance with standards supports services with improving quality undertakes local visit...
View ArticleHundreds have already attended new NIPT training
Back in November 2016 and March 2017 we published blog articles about the additional option of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) to the fetal anomaly screening pathway. Evidence has shown that...
View ArticleWhat PHE Screening blogged about in November 2017
In case you missed any of them, these are the blog articles we published during the month of November 2017. NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme 3 November – User guide published for newborn...
View ArticleDate set for 2018 AAA screening national networking day
27 June 2018: this is the date we’re asking abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening health professionals to save in their diaries. That is when we will be holding our next annual national AAA...
View ArticleHPV primary screening implementation: NHS England announces next steps
In 2016, following a review of the evidence, the UK National Screening Committee recommended that the HPV test should replace cytology as the first stage in cervical screening. This is one of the...
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