NICE guidance and the National Chlamydia Screening Programme

The English National Chlamydia Screening Programme: where next?

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...

NICE work--providing guidance to the British National Health Service.

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

Who is being tested by the English National Chlamydia Screening Programme? A comparison with national probability survey data

OBJECTIVES We compare data collected by England's National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP) with national probability survey data to examine demographic and behavioural differences that may be important in understanding who the NCSP is reaching and interpreting chlamydia positivity. METHODS Data for 538,119 men and women aged 16-24 years who were screened in 2008 and data collected from 2...