M14 Implementing a low dose CT screening programme for lung cancer into routine NHS practice – the south tyneside modelOur local population has one of the highest incidences of lung cancer in the country with a high proportion of the most deprived socioeconomic quintile. This leads to around ...
The NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme was launched, becoming one of the first national schemes of its type in the world. It was the first cancer screening programme in England to include both men and women, with millions screened and thousands of cancers detected every year. Today it is of...
Referring to the cervical cancer screening programme before the House of CommonsPublic Accounts Committeeon Thursday, Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said: "As you know, we have not been satisfied with the way in which that has been performing. As you also know, there was an ...
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cause of cancer death in both males and females in England. A national bowel cancer screening programme was rolled out in England between 2006 and 2010. In the post-randomised controlled trials epoch, assessment of the impact of the programme using obse...
Colorectal cancer screening programme by faecal occult blood test in Tuscany: first round results. Screening with faecal occult blood test (FOBT) has been shown to be effective in reducing mortality from colorectal cancer. Tuscany was the first region in... G Grazzini,G Castiglione,C Ciabattoni...
Cancer referrals at record high - but NHS can't keep up with tests Professor Karol Sikora, the former chief of the cancer programme at the World Health Organisation who was part of a committee that introduced the two-week wait consultant target, told Sky News it was only meant to...
Colposcopy attendance and deprivation: A retrospective analysis of 27 193 women in the NHS Cervical Screening Programme Attendance for cervical screening is socially graded, but little is known about patterns of attendance for colposcopy following an abnormal screening resul... E Douglas,J Wardle,NJ ...
Breast screening whistleblowers were harmed and gagged by UHMBT. Public Health England confirmed in 2015 that their concerns were valid: External review into North Lancashire and South Cumbria Breast Screening Programme Litigation continued about the gagging. A recent case is that of Mr Shyam Kumar,...
In April 2014 the UK government launched the ‘NHS Visitor and Migrant Cost Recovery Programme Implementation Plan’ which set out a series of policy changes to recoup costs from ‘chargeable’ (largely non-UK born) patients. In England, approximately 75% of tuberculosis (TB) cases occur in pe...
A new study found that children with Klinefelter syndrome had significantly higher rates of sleep disorders than control individuals, highlighting the need for early screening. Medscape News UK 22 Jan 2025 Candida Associated With Esophageal Cancer Risk in Achalasia Prior esophageal Candida infection was...