Screening in the UK - call for a national authority to rationalise procedures
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Screening policy in the UK is fragmented, implemented ineffectively and at times a waste of resources, according to a UK healthcare expert. Despite the availability of effective screening tools for a number of diseases, programmes are inefficient because they are run by district health authorities rather than a single national authority, said Malcolm Law of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.