England's health screening programmes: experts warn of safety risks if national oversight is lost doi:10.1136/bmj.q1117The BMJGareth Iacobucci
This is the protocol for a review and there is noThe objectives are as follows: To review the evidence for the effectiveness of screening programmes to improve health professionals' detection of, and response to, violent victimisation in people with severe mental illness. More specifically, this ...
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Survival beyond the first few years of life was rare in the 1940s, but UK children born in the twenty-first century are now estimated to have a median survival of over 50 years of age (Dodge et al.2007). Survival in CF has increased under the influence of improved treatment and managem...
In the United Kingdom National Health Service Breast Screening Programme (NHSBSP), women aged between 50 and 70 y are invited for mammography every 3 y. Screening histories for each woman, over four screening rounds, were analysed. Data from five screening programmes were used to select 57,425...
should be encouraging for schools who might be considering engaging with this approach, yet they should also be aware that we are currently some way off a gold standard approach with different universal screening programmes and measurement tools entailing disparate elements which may impact on ...
In the UK, genomic health data is being generated in three major contexts: the healthcare system (based on clinical indication), in large scale research programmes, and for purchasers of direct-to-consumer genetic tests. The recently delivered hybrid clinical/research programme, 100,000 Genomes Pr...
Women in prisons are known to suffer with mental health difficulties and many experience challenges prior to incarceration. Diversion programmes are initiatives designed to divert people with pre-existing mental illness from the criminal justice system into mental health services. The variability of effect...
HIV was first discovered in the United States 30 years ago. Since then, one characteristic of the epidemic has remained constant: gay men (or men who have sex with men (MSM) have been among the most severely impacted of any social group in the nation. Wh
Screening programmes are based on two (implicit) as- sumptions: (1) early identification of risk factors can prevent the onset of a disease (e.g., endoscopic identific- ation and excision of polyps in the colon) or (2) early de- tection and treatment of a disease provide improved health...