Pharmacy Daily | National cancer register

THE Health Department has announced the appointment of Telstra Health to develop and operate a new National Cancer Screening Register. The move follows a competitive tender process which kicked off last Aug, with the register to support the renewed National Cervical Cancer Screening Program and the expansion of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program. The 2015-16 Budget first flagged the commitment to establish a national register, and the department says it will now work with Telstra to set it up. There will also be significant collaboration with the Department of Human Services and the state and territory governments which will see the transitioning of nine separate cancer screening registers into a single National register. The Health Department said the new register is expected to be operational to align with the start of the renewed National Cervical Cancer Screening Program on 01 May 2017, and will for the first time mean there is one record for each participant. Health practitioners will be able to access the register to identify patients’ screening eligibility and history, with systems expected to be integrated with GP desktops. Telstra Health is a 50% shareholder in Fred IT Group alongside the Pharmacy Guild.

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