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Population Screening: Responsible for the oversight, quality assurance, and coordination at a national level of Scotland’s six population screening programmes. Legal: The Central Legal Office (CLO) provides specialist legal advice and assistance in most areas of law relevant to the public sector to NHSScotland. It provides clients with a ...
The NHS Health Check is a preventive healthcare programme in the United Kingdom offered by National Health Service. The programme invites adults aged between 40 and 74 in England for a health check-up every five years to screen for key conditions including heart disease , diabetes , kidney disease , and stroke . [ 1 ]
NHS Scotland, sometimes styled NHSScotland, is the publicly–funded healthcare system in Scotland and one of the four systems that make up the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. It operates 14 territorial NHS boards across Scotland, supported by seven special non-geographic health boards, and Public Health Scotland.
The Scottish Patient Safety Programme (SPSP) was launched in January 2008 as a five-year programme. It had a primary aim to reduce mortality by 15 per cent and adverse events by 30 per cent across Scotland’s acute hospitals by the end of 2012. [13]
The UK National Screening Committee co-ordinates the screening of people for medical conditions within the United Kingdom. The committee advises ministers and the National Health Service in all four countries of the UK, and is accountable to the four Chief Medical Officers .
Anne Mackie is the Director of Programmes for the UK National Screening Committee, [1] which sets health screening policy throughout the UK by advising ministers and the NHS in the four UK countries about all aspects of screening, and supports implementation of screening programmes.
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As age and biological sex are the biggest risk factors, women over 50 are automatically invited to participate in the NHS Breast Screening Programme every three years. [3] The screening programme was shown to reduce the number of deaths from breast cancer and produce only a modest number of overdiagnosis. [4] [5]