Screening

Leading the way with NHS Screening Programmes

Anne Mackie, 25 September 2014 - Screening

The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), part of Public Health England, is recognised worldwide as a best practice model for screening policy and implementation. We look to emerging science to inform our recommendations and while these recommendations (both for …

Hepatitis C: progress through partnership

Helen Harris and Éamonn O’Moore, 1 August 2014 - Health and Wellbeing, Health inequalities, Protecting the country's health, Reducing the burden of disease, Screening

Monday was World Hepatitis Day, the annual awareness raising day coordinated by the World Hepatitis Alliance. Over 170 organisations who work in the field of viral hepatitis, representing every region of the world are involved, and our own Dr. Helen Harris …

What is the right age for cervical screening?

Anne Mackie, 28 April 2014 - Health and Wellbeing, Reducing the burden of disease, Screening

...screening invite comes with information to help a woman decide whether or not to attend and there’s also plenty of information online too. So what is cervical screening? What cervical...

Freeing babies from being born with HIV

Anne Mackie, 10 March 2014 - Health and Wellbeing, Reducing the burden of disease, Screening

The proportion of HIV-positive diagnosed women passing (transmitting) their infection to their babies in the UK is now at its lowest ever level, having dropped four-fold in 10 years. In...

Welcome to screening

Anne Mackie, 28 January 2014 - Health and Wellbeing, Reducing preventable deaths, Reducing the burden of disease, Screening

Medicine is there to help you and having screening and treatment is a good thing, right? Well, there’s a growing body of scientific concern that some testing is ‘over-diagnosing’ patients...