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After the announcement by NHS England
confirming a multimillion pound investment
to roll out 14 targeted lung health checks,
we take a closer look at what this could mean
for the early detection of lung cancer.
It was back in November 2017 when the chief
executive of NHS England first spoke out about
plans to ‘scale up’ the lung health checks across the
country. It came after the results of several pilot
schemes, including our own project in Nottingham,
showed that scanning for lung cancer does work.
Fast forward 14 months, and following the added
pressure of our LetsRoll campaign, the health
checks are up and running in 14 locations across
England. It is not the full implementation we wanted
but the focus is now on making each of these pilots
a success to provide further evidence to secure a
UK-wide lung cancer screening programme.
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You might recognise Bill here from the last edition of Inspire.
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