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Guidance to support people who find it hard to attend cervical screening due to a mental health condition, previous traumatic experience or sexual and/or domestic abuse.
This information is for women aged 71 or over. These women no longer receive breast screening invitations, but can request breast screening every 3 years.
A framework setting out actions to improve treatment for people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions through better integrated care.
The processes for managing safety incidents in the NHS screening programmes.
Leaflets about bowel cancer screening, developed by and for people with learning disabilities.
Standards for the NHS newborn and infant physical examination (NIPE) screening programme.
This overview is aimed at professionals working in the NHS newborn blood spot (NBS) screening programme.
Instructions on how to use the home test kit provided by the NHS bowel cancer screening programme.
An easy read leaflet about breast screening.
Policy and standards for antenatal laboratories working with the NHS sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) screening programme.
This document describes the NHS cervical screening care pathway.
Guidance for local NHS screening services on how to order printed population screening leaflets.
Guidance for healthcare professionals covering the pathway for sickle cell and thalassaemia screening.
Information about what personal information is used by the screening programmes and why. Includes your options, rights and how to find out more.
Information on the programme, including the screening tests, commissioning, quality assurance, education and training.
Screening standards for the NHS breast screening programme (BSP).
This overview of the NHS newborn hearing screening programme (NHSP) explains how a baby’s hearing is tested, and the equipment used for the tests.
Information on the programme, including commissioning, quality assurance, education and training.
Guidance on the training of new cervical sample takers.
Information for pregnant women who are offered a chorionic villus sampling (CVS) or amniocentesis diagnostic test.
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