Changes to cervical screening management

The NHS will be implementing a new cervical screening management system on 30 October 2021. The system will replace the current call/recall IT system for cervical screening.

Cervical screening sample taker update

Cervical screening sample taker update for July 2021.

NEL Cancer Alliance Primary Care Update July 2021

New NHS Cervical Screening Management System

We are writing to make you aware that the NHS will be implementing a new cervical screening management system on 30 October 2021.

FREE Bowel Cancer Screening project – Community Links

TNW have launched a project to increase bowel cancer screening rates in Tower Hamlets, Newham and Waltham Forest boroughs

FIT Admin Cancer Pathway poster – for immediate use

Recently, across London, there have been increasing numbers of Faecal Immunochemical Tests (FIT) getting rejected from labs, due to incorrect labelling of kits, the wrong specimen container being used or incorrect/improper closure of the container.

NEL Cancer Alliance Primary Care Update June 2021

NEL Cancer Alliance Primary Care Update

The expansion of the home testing (FIT kit) programme

NHSE/I Age extension letter here

Updated Cancer Care Review indicators

Macmillan Cancer Support have updated its web-based resources to support the introduction of the two new and updated Cancer Care Review indicators in the The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) 2021/2022.

Guidance to support people who feel anxious about attending for cervical screening

Public Health England (PHE) has published a national information resource to support people who feel anxious about attending NHS cervical screening appointments.

NEL Cancer Alliance Primary Care Update 25 May 2021

Latest update from alliance

See through the symptoms – lung cancer campaign

This Tuesday saw the launch of the GP awareness campaign for never smoking lung cancers, called ‘See Through the Symptoms’, supported by ALK Positive UK, EGFR Positive UK and the Ruth Strauss Foundation.