NHS Targeted Lung Health Check (lung cancer screening programme)
England's lung screening programme: people aged 55 to 74 who have ever smoked are invited for a risk assessment and, if high risk, a low-dose CT scan, often in a mobile unit in a supermarket car park.
Overview
The Targeted Lung Health Check programme began in 2019 in areas with high lung cancer mortality, inviting ever-smokers aged 55 to 74 through their GP records for a telephone or face-to-face risk assessment using the PLCOm2012 and Liverpool Lung Project risk models; those above threshold have a low-dose CT scan, repeated at 24 months. In 2022 the UK National Screening Committee recommended targeted lung screening nationally and in June 2023 NHS England committed to full national rollout by 2029. Programme data reported that around three quarters of cancers were found at stage 1 or 2, reversing the usual stage distribution, and that uptake was highest where mobile scanners were used. Incidental findings, smoking-cessation support at the visit and radiology capacity are the practical constraints.
How it works
Risk-model-selected invitation followed by low-dose CT with volumetric nodule management, delivered close to home to reach deprived communities.
- Stage shift towards curable disease
- Reaches deprived populations through mobile units
- Integrates smoking cessation
- Radiology and CT capacity
- Incidental findings and false positives
- Excludes never-smokers, who are a growing share of lung cancer
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