This appeared last week:13 November 2017Data delays hinder cancer registerPosted by Ruby Prosser Scully As the Department of Health delays the rollout of the National Cancer Screening Register yet again, clinicians are being urged to be aware that women’s clinical histories may be separated between state and national registers for several months. The transition from two-yearly Pap smears to five-yearly HPV testing has been almost universally praised as life-saving and cost-effective, but the rollout has been beleaguered by repeated delays and cost blowouts. Now another partial delay to the program has been confirmed by Department of Health deputy secretary Paul Madden in the October 26 Senate budget estimates hearing. As of December 1, women will begin HPV testing and the test results will be tracked on a national register. But the data migration of women’s histories from individual states and territories will not be collated until into the next year, with full...
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