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Sunday, 13 April 2014

National AAA Screening

I am attending the launch event of the North East London (NEL) AAA Screening Programme in Havering, Barking & Dagenham on Monday.

The National AAA ( Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm) screening program started in 2009 and has been rolled out in NEL since 2013. The program involves all 65 year old males to have a single Ultrasound scan. Depending on if the aorta measures greater than 3cm, the patient is kept under surveillance until a threshold of 5.5cm is reached. At that size surgical intervention is considered.

Havering has largest cohort of 65 year old males, and our screening in this area finished in December 2013. Barking & Dagenham was completed in November and our uptake for the CCGS were 84% and 74% respectively but we would like to improve this by engaging the local stakeholders as the next cohort for screening eligible men will commence from April 2014.

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