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<p>Professor Sir Mike Richards has published his interim independent review of national
cancer screening programmes in England.</p><p>The interim report makes two recommendations:
that local systems across the country take immediate action to address the decline
in screening uptake by implementing interventions for which a clear evidence base
already exists; and that national stakeholders should ensure IT systems for general
practitioner registrations and screening are fit for purpose.</p><p>The report notes
that in order to encourage uptake in harder to reach groups, the Government needs
to build the evidence base for other emerging interventions, paying particular attention
to novel approaches that have been introduced locally and appear to be successful.
Evaluation would be needed to determine whether they can be replicated on a wider
scale. Professor Sir Mike Richards has committed to gathering further evidence on
these and other interventions as the review progresses and will include specific work
with faith and ethnic groups, experts on physical and learning disabilities and with
LGBT+ communities on their specific concerns about screening, with a particular focus
on the transgender community.</p><p>The Government awaits the final recommendations
which will be reported in the summer 2019, and will consider these carefully, alongside
the recommendations from the recent reports published by the Public Accounts Committee,
the National Audit Office's investigation into screening and the national Cancer Strategy.</p>
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