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• Updated: 6 March 2024

Government to take forward UK National Screening Committee recommendation on use of digital images to make it easier to identify cancer and speed up diagnosis.

• Updated: 5 January 2024

Successful candidates will participate in online workshops looking at modelling for rare diseases in newborn blood spot screening.

• Updated: 10 October 2023

Local NHS diabetic eye screening (DES) providers must use these letters to invite people for screening and inform them of their results.

• Updated: 2 October 2023

UK National Screening Committee seeks patient and public voice representatives to support modelling project for rare diseases in newborn blood spot screening.

• Updated: 1 September 2023

National targeted lung cancer screening programme designed to catch cancer sooner announced.

• Updated: 26 June 2023

Government pledges additional £10 million to speed up breast cancer diagnosis and treatment.

• Updated: 12 January 2023

Child health information services (CHIS) should use these letter templates to notify parents of their baby's blood spot screening results in a consistent way.

• Updated: 3 September 2021

The campaign urges women to attend their cervical screening, with data showing that the number of women attending screening has fallen to a 20-year low.

• Updated: 5 March 2019

Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt and Health Secretary Matt Hancock on the importance of raising our global support for HIV and AIDS prevention and care.

• Updated: 4 December 2018

Data from Public Health England show that patients diagnosed through screening, GP referral or 2-week referrals likely to have more treatment options.

• Updated: 15 August 2018

Ministers agree to national screening committee’s recommendation for bowel cancer screening in England in future to start earlier at 50.

• Updated: 10 August 2018

Letter template for newborn screening laboratories to inform hospitals about a baby screened positive for sickle cell disease.

• Updated: 4 December 2017

New Public Health England (PHE) report shows a decline in men and women having home cancer test.

• Updated: 24 November 2017

PHE is urging women to have cervical screening after latest figures show a drop in attendance.

• Updated: 7 November 2017

Innovative ‘In the Pink’ surgery campaign increases awareness of cervical screening and encourages patients to attend

• Updated: 30 August 2017

Multi-partner project helped increase the cervical screening rate across all Trafford practices.

• Updated: 30 August 2017

Consultation launched on whether screening for Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID) in babies should be tried within the NHS.

• Updated: 4 August 2017

People with diabetes are being reminded to seek medical advice before changing their insulin therapy devices.

• Updated: 26 October 2016

This 2012 campaign encouraged people to see their doctor if they have had blood in their poo or looser poo for the last 3 weeks.

• Updated: 27 June 2016