GP Federation Access Consent for Timely Presentation SCREEN
In partnership with South Yorkshire ICB Cancer Alliance and ECLIPSE (Equality of Care Led Insights for Patient Safety & Engagement).
Practice Pro Forma
Project overview
The Timely Presentation S.C.R.E.E.N (Screening Contact, Reminder, Encouragement, Education, and Non-attendance follow-up) project pilot is a one-off project with a duration of fifteen weeks. It will be led by the GP Federation who will contact patients who have not attended a cervical, breast, or bowel screening in the last three years or more.
HOW: Using Eclipse, the GP Federation will be prioritising patients who have missed screening rounds, accounting for patients identified as high or moderate risk in the software. Eclipse’s deprivation score feature will also be used in cohort selection.
An existing nurse-supervised team of trained call handlers will use an agreed script that will detail the purpose of the call and make clear this is an additional initiative outside of NHS screening and primary care measures.
The GP Federation SCREEN pilot will:
Undertake 66 hours of calling per week, a mix of day, evening and weekend to maximise the potential to be able to contact people
Have a nurse on hand to support any clinical queries
The GP Federation will utilise existing call centre systems
We will target patients based on priority using Eclipse
COHORTS: Eclipse supplies an approximate number of patients marked as high or moderate risk by screening programme, based off of local data. As part of the project we will be prioritising contact with these higher risk patients and those the software labels as being in the lowest deciles of deprivation.
OUTCOMES: Under this system, prioritised patients as applicable will be directly referred to breast screening, provided access to bowel screening by requesting a screening FIT kit, and be able to book into appointments for extended access cervical screening clinics.
Reasons for low screening uptake and why people have not attended screening appointments will also be recorded, with heavy consideration for those living in the most deprived areas. Analysis of these attendance issues will be combined with analysis from findings from other screening outreach initiatives, such as the Cervical Screening engagement undertaken by NHSE Public Health colleagues, to inform the development and delivery of service and future commissioning in Rotherham.
The approach used and information gathered here will be used to support Cancer Champions and other colleagues to continue to improve screening rates in the future.