Supporting health care providers in cancer screening: the role of the National Cancer Screening Register.

Keywords: Population health; Population policy; Registries; Public health; Health promotion; Early detection of cancer; Mass screening EN Population health Population policy Registries Public health Health promotion Early detection of cancer Mass screening 94 98 5 08/08/23 20230807 NES 230807 A national digital infrastructure designed to support health care providers delivering bowel and cervical cancer screening Registers are a key element of organised population-based cancer screening programs. Unlike cancer registers, which focus on collection and reporting of cancer diagnoses, cancer screening registers are digital platforms that support all aspects of the operations of screening programs by inviting, reminding and following up participants for screening. Legislation enabling the NCSR to operate as an opt-out register (the I National Cancer Screening Register Act 2016 i ) was passed in 2016 and permitted the NCSR to receive results for relevant cancer screening and diagnostic tests. [Extracted from the article]