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National Screening Service

We run 4 national population screening programmes: 3 that screen for cancer, and 1 that screens for diabetic retinopathy.
About what we do

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Equity in screening

We work to improve equity in screening, to address the barriers to screening and to make screening more accessible to everyone.

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Working with our European partners to improve access to cancer screening programmes

We recently joined European partners as part of the EUCanScreen project to collaborate on addressin…

Measuring our rate of post-colonoscopy bowel cancers

We've worked with the National Cancer Registry of Ireland to measure our rate of post-colonoscopy b…

Smoking and HPV - supporting patients and colposcopy staff to understand the links between HPV and cervical cancer

We’ve created new resources to support healthcare professionals and women attending colposcopy to u…

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