Update on recommendations from 2018 to 2019
Published 27 July 2021
Applies to England
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Recommendations on coverage
Recommendation 1
Providers not yet submitting data for coverage must have an action plan in place to enable them to do so (FASP-S01, FASP-S02, IDPS-S01, IDPS-S02, IDPS-S03, SCT-S01).
Update
Recommendation closed as new recommendation made in 2019 to 2020 report. Completeness of data has improved but there remains a recommendation for specific providers for FASP-S01 and FASP-S02.
Recommendation 2
Public health commissioning teams should continue to monitor exception reports for coverage standards (FASP-S01, FASP-S02, IDPS-S01, IDPS-S02, IDPS-S03, SCT-S01).
Update
Recommendation closed but issue remains as incidents are still reported on women who were not offered screening or where the offer was accepted but screening was not completed. These will be managed through the screening incident process.
Recommendation 3
Providers must make sure there are contingency arrangements for data collection and submission to cover periods of staff absence (all indicators).
Update
Recommendation closed as this should be addressed by the section 7a service specification.
Recommendations on test
Recommendation 4
NHS FASP should review the performance threshold for FASP-S04 in the major review of standards planned for 2020 to 2021.
Update
Recommendation closed as FASP major standards review is in progress
Recommendation 5
Public health commissioning teams should review reasons for low performance in the Midlands and East region and develop an improvement action plan (SCT-S07).
Update
Recommendation closed as performance is improving year on year and we will continue to monitor.
Recommendation 6
Public health commissioning teams must make sure that the contracts or subcontract of screening laboratories include the timely submission of data to PHE screening (FASP-S05, IDPS-S04a, IDPS-S04b, IDPS-S04c, SCT-S03, SCT-S04).
Update
Recommendation closed as new recommendation made in 2019 to 2020 report. There remains a number of screening laboratories that did not submit data in screening year 2019 to 2020.
Recommendation 7
Providers and public health commissioning teams should review performance and develop and action plan to meet thresholds where these are not met. Priority should be given to meeting the acceptable threshold in the first instance (FASP-S05, IDPS-S04a, IDPS-S04b, IDPS-S04c, SCT-S03, SCT-S04, SCT-S07).
Update
Recommendation closed as new recommendation made in 2019 to 2020 report. There remains a number of screening providers that did not meet the acceptable thresholds in screening year 2019 to 2020.
Recommendations on referral
Recommendation 8:
Providers not yet submitting data for FASP-S07 must have an action plan in place to enable them to do so.
Update
Recommendation closed as all providers submitted data for screening year 2019 to 2020.
Recommendation 9
Providers that have not met 100% for FASP-S07 should participate in the PHE Screening national audit 2019 to 2020.
Update
Recommendation closed as audit data is currently being analysed.
Recommendation 10
NHS FASP should include FASP-S08a and FASP-S08b in the major review of standards planned for 2020 to 2021.
Update
Recommendation closed as FASP major standards review is in progress.
Recommendation 11
Providers not yet submitting data for IDPS-S05 must have an action plan in place to enable them to do so.
Update
Recommendation closed as new recommendation made in the 2019 to 2020 report. One provider did not submit data for screening year 2019 to 2020.
Recommendation 12
Providers that have not met 100% for IDPS-S05 should participate in the PHE Screening national audit 2019 to 2020.
Update
Recommendation closed as audit data is currently being analysed.
Recommendations on diagnosis or intervention
Recommendation 13
The ACGS should work with genomic laboratories not submitting data for FASP-S09 to achieve complete data submission.
Update
Recommendation closed as new recommendation made in the 2019 to 2020 report.
Recommendation 14
Providers not meeting the acceptable threshold for IDPS-S06 should develop plans to meet the threshold.
Update
Recommendation closed as new recommendation made in the 2019 to 2020 report.
Recommendations relating to Intervention or treatment
Recommendation 15
Providers not meeting the acceptable threshold for IDPS-S07a and IDPS-S07b should develop plans to meet the threshold.
Update
Recommendation closed as new recommendation made in the 2019 to 2020 report.
Recommendation 16
Public health commissioning teams should make sure all centres treating babies implement the SCT newborn outcomes system (SCT-S09).
Update
Recommendation maintained for screening year 2019 to 2020 as this is a work in progress and there remains a significant number of missing records.