Welcome to our latest news summary with updates from across the National Screening Service (NSS). To keep up to date with all of our news, including upcoming events and job opportunities, read our blogs, follow us on X @NSShse, and on LinkedIn.
Diabetic RetinaScreen part of WHO visit to Uzbekistan
In June 2024 Diabetic RetinaScreen Programme Manager Helen Kavanagh travelled to Uzbekistan with the World Health Organization (WHO) to help the country establish a pilot programme for population retina screening for people with diabetes. It is estimated that 1.5% of the country’s 35 million-plus people have diabetes.
In Helen’s blog about the WHO’s work in Uzbekistan, she describes the impact Ireland’s screening experience is having on improving lives around the world, and what she learned from her experience.
Information on screening programmes - new resources in multiple languages
We recently revised our factsheet about our four national screening programmes. It's available as Gaeilge, and in English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Somalian and Ukrainian. We will be translating the factsheet into other languages in the coming months.
This factsheet is one of the most downloaded resources on our website. It can be printed quickly and given to patients and serves as a quick guide for health professionals looking for information about the programmes and contact details.
You can access the leaflet, in its multiple languages, along with our other reports and publications, on our website.
NSS staff members write about working in screening
Two of our recent blogs feature our staff members who write about their roles in our screening programmes, and how they support people to choose screening.
Kerry Lombard is the National Radiography Service Manager with BreastCheck. In her blog, Kerry writes about her day-to-day working directly with women that come for screening, why she’s proud to work with BreastCheck and how working in screening offers opportunities for growth and development.
Erika Strofe works in Diabetic RetinaScreen, supporting women with diabetes to come for more frequent screening during pregnancy. Erika’s blog describes her conversations with women about screening and her role in delivering screening to women with diabetes under a new initiative introduced last year.
More news in brief
Here are some of the other blogs we published recently:
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