Publications

This Screening Programmes' Quality Framework stems for the NSU's Strategic Plan 2003 - 2008. It supports the NSU's vision and strategic outcomes and provides a structure for quality activities under the "quality improvement" area for action in the Strategic Plan. The Quality Framework is a key response by the NSU to the Ministry of Health report Improving Quality.

Reviewing the evidence on the benefits, harms and costs of breast cancer screening for women aged 40 to 49 years in New Zealand. Simon Baker, Madeleine Wall, Ashley Bloomfield The New Zealand Medical Journal. Vol 118 No1221 ISSN1175 8716

The content of referral letters determines which patients get seen with what priority. Referrals to a Colposcopy Service were reviewed as there were concerns that inappropriate or inadequate referrals from primary care could be impacting on the service provision and waiting times for all women.

This report brings together data from a number of sources to present a picture of cervical cancer incidence and mortality over time in New Zealand, set alongside data on coverage of women by the National Cervical Screening Programme (NCSP) and some data from overseas.