Guidance

Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening: vascular nurse specialist guidance

This document provides guidance on the vascular nurse specialist role for local AAA screening services in England.

• From: NHS England
• Published: 17 February 2016
• Last updated: 2 June 2025
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  1. 2 June 2025

     Amended the recommended whole time equivalent (0.1 WTE per 800,000 total population) to align with updated AAA programme guidance. Wording clarified and duplication removed.

  2. 21 July 2020

     Added HTML version of previous PDF document.

  3. 17 February 2016

     First published.

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NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm screening: vascular nurse specialist guidance

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This publication includes recommendations and guidelines for good clinical practice for vascular nurse specialists in reviewing men with screen detected aneurysms within the NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Screening Programme.