National chlamydia screening programme in England: making progress

Establishing the National Chlamydia Screening Programme in England: results from the first full year of screening.

BACKGROUND The phased implementation of the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP) began in September 2002. The NCSP offers opportunistic screening for chlamydia to women and men under 25 years of age attending clinical and non-clinical screening venues using non-invasive urine or vulvo-vaginal swab samples tested via nucleic acid amplification. This review describes the implementation o...

The English National Chlamydia Screening Programme: where next?

Cost-effectiveness of the National Health Service abdominal aortic aneurysm screening programme in England

BACKGROUND Implementation of the National Health Service abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening programme (NAAASP) for men aged 65 years began in England in 2009. An important element of the evidence base supporting its introduction was the economic modelling of the long-term cost-effectiveness of screening, which was based mainly on 4-year follow-up data from the Multicentre Aneurysm Screen...

With appropriate incentives, general practice can improve the coverage of the National Chlamydia Screening Programme.

The cost effectiveness of opportunistic chlamydia screening in England.

BACKGROUND/AIM The National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP) is being implemented in England. This study aims to estimate the cost effectiveness of (a) the NCSP strategy (annual screening offer to men and women aged under 25 years) and (b) alternative screening strategies. METHODS A stochastic, individual based, dynamic sexual network model was combined with a cost effectiveness model to ...