Professionals

There's a wealth of material about screening on this website for health and related professionals, as well as links to the websites of all the individual screening programmes in the UK.

A useful introductory video for professionals about the key concepts of screening (called 'NHS Screening: Doing More Good than Harm'), developed for the NICE conference in December 2009, can be found on the What is Screening? page.

The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC):

• Find out about the role and remit of the UK NSC and read an interview with Dr Anne Mackie, UK NSC Director of Programmes
• Check out the policy database, with details of the 100+ health screening policies set by the by the UK NSC and find out about the process for reviewing policies
• News - find out the latest from the UK NSC (you can even subscribe to a news RSS feed)

Screening Programmes around the UK:

• The programmes page lists all the screening programmes in each UK country and allows you to find out more about them, including visiting their own websites. It also includes a handy comparison chart to easily compare a specific type of screening across each UK country.

Screening Programmes in England:

• The NHS Screening Timeline provides a visual representation of all the screening programmes available.
• The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) page provides links to other resources for professionals.
• The UK NSC Regional Teams are the people to contact for support around antenatal and newborn programmes in your part of England.

If you're having difficulty navigating this website then help is available.

It's easy to contact the UK NSC if you need to. We also welcome feedback on this website.