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Health Act 1956

National Cervical Screening Programme - Screening programme evaluators

112T: Meaning of evaluate

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"What 'evaluate' means: checking if a health programme is working well and finding ways to improve it"

When you hear the word evaluate in this part of the law, it means to check and assess how the National Cervical Screening Programme is working. You do this to help the programme achieve its goals by finding any big problems that need to be fixed or ways to improve it. You evaluate the programme to see if it is working well and if there are any issues that need to be addressed. This can involve looking at the cases of women who are part of the programme, women who have developed cervical cancer, and women who have died, to see how the programme is working for them.

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Part 4ANational Cervical Screening Programme
Screening programme evaluators

112TMeaning of evaluate

  1. For the purposes of this Part, evaluate means to monitor and assess the service delivery and outcomes of the NCSP so as to promote the fulfilment of its objectives by determining whether there are any systemic issues to address within the programme or quality improvements that may be made to it.

  2. An evaluation may, from time to time, include a review of, and an investigation into, the cases of—

  3. any woman who is enrolled in the NCSP (whether or not she has developed any cervical cancer); and
    1. any woman who has developed any cervical cancer (whether or not she is enrolled in the NCSP); and
      1. any deceased persons to whom paragraph (a) or paragraph (b) applied at the time of death.

        Notes
        • Section 112T: inserted, on , by section 4 of the Health (National Cervical Screening Programme) Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 3).