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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.
Screening standards for the NHS bowel cancer screening programme (BCSP).
Sets out the national procedures for auditing cases of invasive cervical cancer.
This is to help commissioners, sample takers and laboratories reduce errors associated with cervical screening sample requests.
An easy to read leaflet explaining diabetic eye screening (DES).
Guidance for laboratories handling samples for the NHS infectious diseases in pregnancy screening (IDPS) programme.
These documents describe the newborn hearing screening programme (NHSP) pathways.
Information about what personal information is used by the screening programmes and why. Includes your options, rights and how to find out more.
This document for healthcare professionals covers surveillance, referral and audiological monitoring following newborn hearing screening.
This document explains the quality assurance support service for Down’s syndrome, Edwards’ syndrome and Patau’s syndrome screening (DQASS).
How to report, classify and monitor interval cancers and cancers following previous assessment.
Information for people who cannot be screened using digital photography and need a slit lamp examination instead.
These guidelines on the prevention of secondary cases have been developed following a review of the epidemiology of invasive Hib disease.
How to opt out of an NHS screening programme if you no longer wish to be offered screening.
Education and training requirements for specialist screening practitioners in the NHS bowel cancer screening programme (BCSP).
Operational guidance to support the offer of NIPT.
Guidelines covering primary HPV and primary cytology screening pathways, to avoid and manage errors (or missed screens) during the cervical screening process.
Information to help healthcare professionals speak with parents, following suspected or confirmed diagnosis of congenital heart disease.
Screening standards for the sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) antenatal and newborn screening programme.
Information for health professionals about how, and in what circumstances, women can opt out temporarily or permanently from breast screening.
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