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Health screening: equity in screening strategy 2023 to 2026
The Scottish equity in screening strategy tackles inequalities within the screening programmes.
Appendix 4: Scottish Government Screening Inequalities Fund
The Scottish Government Screening Inequalities Fund is intended to support and deliver work on tackling inequalities in access to cancer screening services across Scotland. It is part of Detect Cancer Early (DCE) funding, a public health intervention which aims to have a significant role in preventing or identifying cancer at an early stage, to improve chances of survival.
Screening inequalities funding has been available on an annual basis since 2017. Up until 2020-2021, the fund was allocated using a bidding process. In 2021-22 the funding structure changed to a new process which supports a blend of national and local projects, with funding allocated directly to all NHS Boards.
The fund has enabled over 60 local projects, covering a wide range of settings, providers, target groups and interventions. The most recent NHS Board projects enabled by the 2022-23 funding are listed below. These are followed by many of the projects funded between 2017 and 2021. Please note, this second list between 2017 and 2021 is not definitive, instead it is a list of projects for which National Screening Oversight has been made aware of.
| Health Board | Project Title | Cancer Screening Programme |
|---|---|---|
| NHS Ayrshire & Arran | Health Board clinic for cervical screening | Cervical |
| Cervical screening outreach to areas of deprivation | Cervical | |
| Health board clinics for staff unable to access their GP practice due to shift work | Cervical | |
| Research by Jo's Trust | Cervical | |
| NHS Borders | Staff member | Breast, Bowel, Cervical |
| NHS Dumfries & Galloway | Reducing screening inequalities in people affected by homelessness and/or mental health issues | Breast, Bowel, Cervical |
| NHS Forth Valley | Project title TBC | Cervical |
| NHS Grampian | Research project – barriers & facilitators | Breast, Bowel, Cervical |
| NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | Engaging BAME Communities | Breast, Bowel, Cervical |
| Additional community cervical screening clinics | Cervical | |
| Service improvement | Breast, Bowel, Cervical | |
| NHS Highland | Accessible Screening Website | Breast, Bowel, Cervical |
| Breast Screening Telephone Reminder and Support Project | Breast | |
| Screening Awareness & Engagement - Community Outreach | Breast, Bowel | |
| Raising the issue of screening with eligible people accessing smoking cessation support | Breast, Bowel, Cervical | |
| Development of National Screening Programmes CPD TURAS Module | Breast, Bowel, Cervical | |
| Project title TBC | ||
| NHS Lanarkshire | Camglen Screening Community Engagement Project | Breast, Cervical |
| VANL Community Engagement Project | Breast, Cervical | |
| Primary Care Engagement | Cervical | |
| Sexual health & cancer screening for people affected by homelessness | Breast, Bowel, Cervical | |
| Animated video brochures (purchased from NHS GGC) | Breast, Bowel, Cervical | |
| NHS Lothian | Communication campaign | Breast, Bowel, Cervical |
| Social media to increase reach in breast screening | Breast | |
| Ethnic minority screening champion | Breast, Bowel, Cervical | |
| Access to sexual health and cervical screening for inpatients within mental health services | Cervical | |
| Young people and cervical screening | Cervical | |
| NHS Orkney | Analysis of screening inequalities in Orkney | Breast, Bowel, Cervical |
| NHS Shetland | Cervical Screening Recovery Hub | Cervical |
| NHS Tayside | Intervention to Increase Uptake Breast Screening amongst individuals with a Learning Disability | Breast |
| Telephone Intervention to Increase Uptake Breast Screening | Breast | |
| Intervention to increase uptake amongst those who screen positive and do not respond/attend colonoscopy | Bowel | |
| NHS Western Isles | Screening awareness | Breast, Bowel, Cervical |
| Lead Organisation | Project Name | Cancer Screening Programme |
|---|---|---|
| NHS Tayside | Reducing Inequalities: Bridging the Gap in Scottish National Cancer Screening Programmes in those Experiencing Severe and Enduring Mental Health Conditions | Multiple |
| NHS Orkney | Let's talk about cervical screening campaign | Cervical |
| NHS Lothian | Participation in the national screening programmes, cervical, breast and bowel screening make a significant impact on detecting cancer early. | Multiple |
| NHS Lothian | Regional Cervical Screening Staff Clinics | Cervical |
| NHS Lothian | Improve accessibility, reduce inequalities, and improve informed choice for those invited for all cancer screening programmes in the LD and BME women eligible screening population. | Multiple |
| NHS Highlands | An evaluation of the knowledge of frontline staff to support participation in NHS Health Screening Programmes | Multiple |
| NHS Highland | Public Health delivery of a bowel screening GP endorsement letter and FIT kit replacement service | Bowel |
| NHS Highland | Peer Led Intervention to Increase Awareness of Bowel Screening in People with a Learning Disability, their Family and Support Staff. | Bowel |
| NHS Highland | Community Champion and Volunteer Model. | Multiple |
| NHS Grampian | Making Every Opportunity Count (MeOC) model to raise conversations about cancer screening in community settings | Multiple |
| NHS Forth Valley | Cancer Screening and Inequalities | Multiple |
| NHS Fife | Increasing cervical smear uptake by vulnerable women in Fife: A pilot project using experience led co-design | Cervical |
| NHS Dumfries & Galloway | Screening Inequalities Engagement Programme (SIEP) | Multiple |
| NHS Borders | Staff cervical screening clinics pilot programme | Cervical |
| NHS Borders | Borders GP Practices Cervical Screening Services Scoping Report March 2018 | Cervical |
| NHS Borders | Waverley Medical Practice: Cervical Cancer Screening Report Activity and Interventions in 2017 | Cervical |
| NHS Borders | Continuing Professional Development Session for Public Health staff March 2018 | Cervical |
| NHS Borders | An Update Session for Lifestyles Advisor Support Service 2017 | Multiple |
| NHS Borders | An Update Session for Learning Disability Provider Forum 2018 | Multiple |
| NHS Borders | An Update Session for Learning Disability Nurses 2018 | Multiple |
| MECOPP | Chinese Cancer Screening Project | Multiple |
| Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust | Be cervix savvy roadshow. | Cervical |
| Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust | Awareness of cervical cancer and prevention among women eligible for cervical screening in Scotland | Cervical |
| Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust | Glasgow Outreach Service | Multiple |
| Glasgow University | A faith-based intervention for Muslim women in Scotland to encourage uptake of breast, bowel, and cervical cancer screening: a community based participatory approach. | Multiple |
| Glasgow City HSCP | Cancer Screening Videos/Animations for BAME Community | Multiple |
| Bowel Cancer UK | Bowel screening: tackling inequalities in uptake in adults with learning disabilities | Bowel |
| NHS Shetland (& NHS Orkney) | Working to support and better understand people with a LD/Autism and their support workers and carers | Multiple |
| NHS Orkney (& NHS Dumfries & Galloway) | Inequalities and Screening (aimed at people working with women who have experienced Intimate Partner Violence) |
Contact
Email: screening@gov.scot
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