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Guidance

Guidance and standards in cancer screening and care for health and care professionals

Guidance

  • Breast screening: identifying and reducing inequalities

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: Jun 2022
    Description: Guidance and shared practice for breast screening providers, commissioners and other stakeholders on addressing inequalities.

  • Cancer screening - making reasonable adjustments

    Organisation: Public Health England
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: October 2016
    Description: Cancer screening: Making reasonable adjustments

  • Cancers

    Organisation: NICE
    Type: Guidance and standards
    Date published: April 2023
    Description: Guidance and standards for all cancers.

  • Improving Health: Annual Health Checks

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Films and Guidance on Annual Health Checks
    Date published: June 2022
    Description: Annual Health Checks are a good opportunity to check for cancer red flags and to ensure people have attended age appropriate cancer screening. Exemplars of AHCs, Films about their importance from people with lived experience, AHCs in secondary care pilot. Published June 2022

  • NHS Long Term Plan: ambitions for cancer

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Strategy
    Date published: January 2019
    Description: Ambitions and commitments to improve cancer outcomes and services in England over the next ten years.

  • NHS population screening: access for all

    Organisation: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID)
    Type: Guidance for health and social care professionals
    Date published: August 2022
    Description: Guidance and resources to help reduce inequalities in population screening by ensuring that all eligible people have access.

  • NHS population screening: inequalities strategy

    Organisation: Public Health England
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: October 2020
    Description: NHS population screening: inequalities strategy to support the health system to reduce inequalities in screening including statistics on prevention of deaths due to screening.

  • Northern Cancer Alliance: Promoting access to cancer screening for people with a learning disability

    Organisation: Northern Cancer Alliance/NHS
    Type: Resource Pack
    Date published: Undated
    Description: Cancer screening information pack which includes information on capacity and consent, best interest guidance, easy read invitation letters for GPs, sample letters for parents and carers and links to national easy read materials.

  • PHE: Cancer screening: Making reasonable adjustments

    Organisation: Public Health England
    Type: Guidance
    Date published: 8th May 2016
    Description: Guidance for health and social care professionals and family members/carers, on reasonable adjustments before and during cancer screening – including an easy read version.

  • Population screening: supporting people with a learning disability

    Organisation: Public Health England
    Type: Guidance and resources for local screening providers, commissioners and other
    Date published: June 2021
    Description: Guidance for health professionals to support people with a learning disability to access screening.

  • Promoting Access to Cancer Screenings for people with a learning disability

    Organisation: Northern Cancer Alliance
    Type: Guidance and resource pack for care providers of learning disability services
    Date published: 2006
    Description: "To support care providers of learning disability services with knowledge and understanding of the national cancer screening programmes, the mental capacity act and best interest decisions guidance. The pack includes practical guidance on supporting access to screenings, person centered assessment/checklists and screening action plans."

  • Reasonable Adjustments for people with a learning disability

    Organisation: Public Health England
    Type: Guidance on the law
    Date published: 2018
    Description: Guidance on the legal duties for clinicians and others on making reasonable adjustments for people with a learning disability under the law.

  • Reasonable adjustments for people with a learning disability

    Organisation: AHSN Network
    Type: Film
    Date published: 2018
    Description: This video is for healthcare professionals working in primary care, to understand more about reasonable adjustments and how they can support people with a learning disability to attend their annual health check.

  • Use of reasonable adjustments to reduce health inequalities for people with a learning disability

    Organisation: NHS England
    Type: Films and Guidance
    Date published: Jun 2022
    Description: A film about Kareem and his mum Fazilla’s experience of reasonable adjustments and the difference it makes to them when reasonable adjustments are offered.

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