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This guide sets out what population screening is, how it works, and its limitations.
Important information about private screening tests offered by commercial organisations and how they differ from NHS screening programmes.
The offer of health screening can be confusing and commercial health…
Differences in screening policy and implementation across the UK.
Policy, evidence and practice for screening programmes
Population screening programmes can cause harms as well as benefits, which need to be weighed up by the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC).
Core principles and elements of all screening programmes
UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) criteria for appraising the viability, effectiveness and appropriateness of a screening programme.
Principles of informed choice applied in screening programmes
The process by which the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) reviews evidence relating to national population screening programmes.
This guidance is for local authorities and providers of child vision screening, providing a service specification and screening pathway.
Definitions of words and phrases used in relation to population, targeted and stratified screening programmes.
Activities to assess the quality of screening programmes, monitor compliance with standards and support quality improvement.
Principles for developing, reviewing and publishing screening standards.
Summary of purpose and intended audience for this manual.
This information is for screeners responsible for vision screening of children aged 4 to 5 years.
Annual call for topics process for submitting proposals to the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC).
Terms of reference for the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) Research and Methodology Group (RMG)
Essential elements and recommended practice for screening IT systems, data collection and reporting.
This document outlines the UK National Screening Committee’s systematic approach to the use of decision analytic modelling as part of the evidence review process
Form for stakeholders, UK NSC and expert group members to use when registering any actual, potential or perceived conflicts of interest.
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