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Leading the way with NHS Screening Programmes

Posted by: Anne Mackie, Posted on: 25 September 2014 - Categories: 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 …

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Freeing babies from being born with HIV

Posted by: Anne Mackie, Posted on: 10 March 2014 - Categories: 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...

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Welcome to screening

Posted by: Anne Mackie, Posted on: 28 January 2014 - Categories: Health and Wellbeing, Reducing preventable deaths, Reducing the burden of disease, Screening

...programmes for a number of different conditions have been established. There are currently three national cancer screening programmes: breast, bowel and cervical; and eight non-cancer screening programmes: six antenatal and...

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