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Feb 17

The Scottish Bowel Screening Centre – 10 years on

Linda Brownlee, Scottish Bowel Screening Service Manager NHS Tayside has hosted the Scottish Bowel Screening Centre at its Kings Cross site since it was opened by Shona Robison MSP in June 2007. A lot has happened in those ten years! We’ve had literally hundreds of tons of bowel screening test kits returned to […]

Jul 16

Would collaboration create an advantage in tackling obesity?

Lorraine Tulloch, Programme Lead – Obesity Action Scotland, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow This is the question we posed at a meeting of interested parties in April. Attendees included academics and obesity researchers, charities such as British Heart Foundation and Diabetes Scotland, NHS, NHS Health ...

Jul 16

Prevention still needs to prove its value

Some reflections by Dr Andrew Fraser, NHS Health Scotland We have perhaps forgotten the first democratic jolt of the year, in May – the Scottish Elections. The language of prevention grew stronger then, while we face squeezed budgets, using every pound wisely and effectively. There is no doubt that prevention in a general sense is ...

Nov 15

#GetChecked for Cancer

Checks have been popping up all over Scotland as a new campaign to highlight the importance of finding cancer early gets underway. #GetChecked, which forms part of Scotland’s effort to turn the Big C into the wee c, aims to make check patterns synonymous with early cancer detection. The idea is that every time someone […]

May 15

Scotland to have a State of the Art Bowel Cancer Screening Programme

Screening for colorectal cancer has been offered to everyone between the ages of 50 and 74 in Scotland since 2010. The programme is based on the test for blood in stool called the Guaiac Faecal Occult Blood Test (gFOBT) which is sent in the mail every two years to people in the appropriate age […]

Feb 15

Changes in Cervical Screening in Scotland

From 1 April 2016, Scotland will see changes in the cervical screening programme. The age range for women will change from age 20-60 years to 25-64 years plus 364 days. The frequency of cervical screening will continue to be every three years from age 25 to 50, but will change to every five years for […]

Aug 13

Older Women Urged to Attend Cervical Cancer Screening

A third of Scottish women aged 50-70 believe cervical screening to be irrelevant and unnecessary according to the Scottish Cervical Screening Statistics 2011-12. Despite a 41% rise in diagnosis in this age group over the last 10 years the statistics demonstrate a decrease in the women screened, which dropped from 83% to 74% in the ...

Apr 13

Detect Cancer Early Turns to Bowel Cancer

The Detect Cancer Early Programme is a Scottish Government Health Department initiative designed to increase the proportion of Scots diagnosed with early stage cancer. Initially the programme is focusing on breast, colorectal (bowel) and lung cancer and the aim is to increase the proportion of these cancers diagnosed in the earlier ...

Feb 13

Changes in Cervical Screening

The UK National Screening Committee (NSC) has published recommendations to change the age that women receive their first invitation for cervical screening from 20 to 25. This recommendation follows from the observation that cervical cancer in women under the age of 25 is rare, and the majority of abnormalities picked up by ...

Jan 13

Breast Screening Review

Last year, the UK Government announced a review of the evidence for breast screening as a result of on-going criticism from some quarters that the screening programme over states the benefits and downplays the harms associated to screening. The review reported in October ...

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