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This guide sets out what population screening is, how it works, and its limitations.
Differences in screening policy and implementation across the UK.
Policy, evidence and practice for screening programmes
Core principles and elements of all screening programmes
UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) criteria for appraising the viability, effectiveness and appropriateness of a screening programme.
Population screening programmes can cause harms as well as benefits, which need to be weighed up by the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC).
Important information about private screening tests offered by commercial organisations and how they differ from NHS screening programmes.
Principles of informed choice applied in screening programmes
This guidance is for local authorities and providers of child vision screening, providing a service specification and screening pathway.
Definitions of words and phrases used in relation to population, targeted and stratified screening programmes.
皇冠体育app process by which the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) reviews evidence relating to national population screening programmes.
Activities to assess the quality of screening programmes, monitor compliance with standards and support quality improvement.
This information accompanies all invitations for child vision screening, offered to children aged 4 to 5 years.
Annual call for topics process for submitting proposals to the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC).
Principles for developing, reviewing and publishing screening standards.
Form for stakeholders, UK NSC and expert group members to use when registering any actual, potential or perceived conflicts of interest.
Terms of reference for the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) Fetal, Maternal and Child Health (FMCH) expert group
Summary of purpose and intended audience for this manual.
Best practice for the facilitation of informed choices in screening.
This information is for screeners responsible for vision screening of children aged 4 to 5 years.
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