2015: an exciting year for screening

Professor Anne Mackie reflects on 2015 calling it 'a particularly exciting year for screening'.
Professor Anne Mackie reflects on 2015 calling it 'a particularly exciting year for screening'.
A look back at the first UK National Screening Committee stakeholder conference.
We've just published 2 reports – NHS Screening Programmes in England 2014 to 2015 and Screening in the UK: making effective recommendations 2014 to 2015.
We've just published the UK NSC evidence review process.
Plans are well under way for the first ever UK National Screening Committee conference.
The UK NSC is consulting on introducing NIPT to the screening programme for Down’s syndrome, Edwards’ syndrome and Patau’s syndrome.
I'm sure we'd all say that it's important to listen, but sometimes we only do it with half an ear – or perhaps not at all.
This article was originally published on the Public Health England screening blog. The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) meets three times a year to consider the evidence on whether the UK countries should screen for more conditions. It makes …