Our role is to ensure that primary care trusts effectively commission, deliver and quality-assure screening services.
We also support and develop screening services. This includes antenatal and newborn children screening, diabetic retinopathy and cancer screening programmes. Priorities include:
- extending breast cancer screening to cover women aged between 47 and 73
- rolling out the new bowel cancer screening to cover women and men aged 60-69 and then extending coverage to age 75
- ensuring women receive the results of cervical cancer screening within two weeks
We are currently developing a quality assurance system for diabetic retinopathy and antenatal screening and are developing a new abdominal and aortic aneurysm screening service.
Please click on the links below for further information:
National Screening Committee website
National Cancer Screening website
North East and Yorkshire and the Humber Quality Assurance Reference Centre
