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UK National Screening Committee

The UK National Screening Committee provides independent advice to the government and NHS in the four UK countries about all aspects of screening. It aims to ensure that screening programs are evidence-based, effective, and safe for the population.

Communication Overview

Total releases

Number of press releases published by this department during the last 12 months, based on publicly available announcements.

Avg per month

Average number of press releases published per calendar month over the last 12 months. This smooths short-term fluctuations in publishing activity.

0.1

Avg word count

Average length of published press releases, measured in words. Calculated only for months where content was published.

300

Avg readability

Average Flesch Reading Ease score across all published press releases. Higher values indicate plainer English. Scores are indicative only and vary by subject matter.

33.1

Friday PM releases

Percentage of press releases published after 3pm on Fridays, relative to the department’s total output during the period.

Single-release items

Estimated proportion of announcements published once, without a closely related follow-up release during the same period. This is based on similarity of titles and timing.

100%

Metrics are descriptive only and indicate publication patterns rather than intent or impact.

Releases per month

Based on publicly published press releases (last 12 months)

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UK NSC consultation on prostate cancer screening closes

Tuesday, 24 February 2026

The 12-week public consultation that opened on Friday 28 November 2025 has closed. ...

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UK NSC appoints 2 PPVs for Blood Spot Task Group project

Tuesday, 10 October 2023

Successful candidates will participate in online workshops looking at modelling for rare diseases in newborn blood spot screening....

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UK NSC blood spot task group project: PPVs required

Friday, 01 September 2023

UK National Screening Committee seeks patient and public voice representatives to support modelling project for rare diseases in newborn blood spot sc...

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UK NSC blood spot task group update

Monday, 23 January 2023

BSTG terms of reference and notes of most recent meetings published....

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UK NSC announces commercial engagement event

Tuesday, 10 January 2023

The UK NSC is inviting commercial organisations involved in developing multi-cancer early detection tests to an information-sharing event....

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UK National Screening Committee: 25 years of recommendations

Monday, 20 September 2021

The UK NSC has been making evidence-based recommendations about health screening for 25 years. Find out about its work and achievements since 1996....

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Read the UK NSC’s annual report for April 2020 to March 2021

Friday, 30 July 2021

This report summarises all the work of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021....

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Public dialogue on the use of whole genome sequencing in newborn screening

Thursday, 08 July 2021

A new public dialogue finds support for the use of whole genome sequencing (WGS) in newborn screening – providing that the right safeguards and resour...

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UK NSC and public views about restoring cancer screening pathways following COVID 19

Monday, 05 July 2021

Cancer Research UK has published the results of a UK public survey examining attitudes towards restoring screening pathways in response to COVID-19....

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Public dialogue on whole genome sequencing for newborn screening

Friday, 11 June 2021

Register for an online event on 8 July to find out about a nationwide public dialogue on the implications of using whole genome sequencing for newborn...

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