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The UK NSC has published a new collection of documents on GOV.UK that describe its processes and principles for implementing the chief medical officers’ recommendations for the committee’s expanded remit.
The UK NSC has recommended that the 4 UK nations should move towards implementing a targeted national lung cancer screening programme, integrated with smoking cessation services.
The 2022 annual call has opened for submission of proposals for potential new screening programmes or new technologies that have not previously been reviewed by the UK National Screening Committee.
A small number of bursaries are now available for the ever-popular Warwick health screening module.
More than 300,000 babies in England have already been screened for severe combined immunodeficiency in an evaluation run by the UK NSC and NHS England.
Find out more about the new Lancet Digital Health article on the UK NSC approach to reviewing evidence on AI in breast screening.
Find out more about Blood Spot Task Group (BSTG) and how it is helping inform UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) evaluations into screening for rare diseases.
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has appointed a new chair to contribute to its ongoing development.
The UK NSC is recruiting 3 new members to support its expanded role and remit.
As part of our work to develop a new approach to ethics to help guide the work of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), we tested the proposals by looking at family cascade screening for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH).