028 National Screening Programmes

028 National Screening Programmes

The latest version of "028. Screening Programmes" is v2.1

Primary Care IT have created some useful searches and reports to help practices manage their National Screening Programme activity. More information about screening programmes is provided in this article.



These cover:
  • Bowel screening:
    • Find those not screened
    • Find incomplete or spoiled samples
    • Find those who have not responded to invites
    • Find potential coding errors
  • Breast screening:
    • Find those not screened
    • Find those who have not responded to invites
    • Find those with a disclaimer (cease/opt-out) in place
    • Find potential coding errors
  • Cervical screening
    • Perform cervical screening audits (inadequate results etc)
    • Recall searches
    • Targeting searches - broken down into those with learning disabilities, SMI, or autism so you can create bespoke approaches dependent on need
    • Data quality searches
These programmes are centrally run, and recall is undertaken by the NHS centrally.  It is important for practices to consider how they interact with this recall and what actions they wish to take.

We have further detailed resources, including a practice protocol for cervical screening in our information hub (registration required)

Changelog

v1.0

  1. Initial search creation

v2.0 10/11/22

  1. Added smear audit searches
  2. Added data quality searches for cervical smears 

v2.1 09/09/24

  1. Amended ages for bowel cancer screening cohort
  2. Updated codelists for bowel screening
  3. Added declined search for bowel screening
  4. Updated codelists for breast screening
  5. Added disclaimer search for breast screening
  6. Added data quality search for breast screening

Communications Log

Dated 10/11/22
Primary Care IT are pleased to release updated versions of their National Screening Programme searches. These include updates to help you create bespoke ways of communicating with patients who have differing needs - including Autism, Learning disabilities and SMI.


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