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The UK NSC is consulting on whether to offer an HPV self-sampling option to people who rarely or never attend their cervical screening appointments.
Screening professionals full of praise for 5-day Warwick course: ‘An excellent experience all round’
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) received 26 proposals in response to its 2024 annual open call for topics. Submissions included new screening topics, modifications to existing programmes and early topic updates.
The HPValidate study, set up to help find out if vaginal self-taken samples are as accurate as standard clinician-taken tests in the NHS Cervical Screening Programme in England, has published its final results.
The NHS Targeted Lung Health Check Programme, which will be scaled up into a national screening programme, has detected more than 5,000 lung cancers since its launch.
The phased implementation of OCT scans into the post-diabetic eye screening treatment and surveillance pathway in England is expected to save tens of thousands of hospital appointments every year.
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