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This guide sets out what population screening is, how it works, and its limitations.
Joint Statement delivered by Zambia on behalf of 81 Member States including the United Kingdom at the UN General Assembly.
Population screening programmes: Population screening: data and intelligence
Evidence and guidance to help healthcare professionals raise awareness of NHS population screening.
Population screening programmes: Population screening: evidence and guidance
Materials from the Foresight 'Future of an ageing population' project, which analysed the challenges and opportunities of an ageing society.
Resources to support screening professionals in their initial training and continuing professional development (CPD).
A development programme of educational resources on critical public health topics for people who work in the health and care sector and the extended public health workforce.
Guidance for health professionals to support people with a learning disability to access screening.
Explains what quality assurance is and the processes involved.
Advice for people who commission, fund, deliver and evaluate health outreach programmes.
A collection of quality assurance reports and standards covering the range of population screening services offered by NHS England.
Guidance and resources to help reduce inequalities in population screening by ensuring that all eligible people have access.
Population screening programmes can cause harms as well as benefits, which need to be weighed up by the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC).
National processes and guidance for the collection and reporting of data in the NHS screening programmes.
A contents page for NHS England population screening programmes including details such as programme standards, education and training and quality assurance
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