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Roy LilleyHost
This week, we mark the anniversary of Alexandra Fleming's discovery of penicillin at St Mary's in September 1928. and a useful thought to carry into the rest of the week.
A discovery or development, and particularly a tech something, only becomes valuable when people and someone can use it.
That takes people, organisation, persistence, and a way of getting it to those who need it.
The NHS does that every day, and some of its most encouraging achievements deserve a much bigger audience.
Let's start where you're likely to be, if not today, then sometime this week in a supermarket car park.
The NHS has been taking lung scanners into local communities and car parks, making it easier for people at risk to get checked.
By May this year, England's programme, and I linked to it this morning, had detected more than 10,000 lung cancers.
Behind those numbers are people whose illness was found while treatment had a better chance of success.
Research found cervical cancer rates were 87% lower among young women offered the HPV vaccine at 12 or 13 than among comparable women born earlier who had not been offered it.
Consent forms, school visits, nurses answering questions, records maintained, programmes sustained over years, with an extraordinary return.
The NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, which I link to, offers people at high risk continuing help with food, activity and weight.
NHS England says people completing it reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes by more than a third.
Prevention becomes much more convincing when we can point to a service that's already doing it and there is a newer success.
The HSV vaccination programme, which I linked to this morning, helped reduce hospital admissions associated with the virus by a third among people aged 75 to 79 during its first winter.
And that's a huge achievement for a programme that was only introduced in September 2024.
This week, we mark the anniversary of Alexandra Fleming's discovery of penicillin at St Mary's in September 1928. and a useful thought to carry into the rest of the week.
A discovery or development, and particularly a tech something, only becomes valuable when people and someone can use it.
That takes people, organisation, persistence, and a way of getting it to those who need it.
The NHS does that every day, and some of its most encouraging achievements deserve a much bigger audience.
Let's start where you're likely to be, if not today, then sometime this week in a supermarket car park.
The NHS has been taking lung scanners into local communities and car parks, making it easier for people at risk to get checked.
By May this year, England's programme, and I linked to it this morning, had detected more than 10,000 lung cancers.
Behind those numbers are people whose illness was found while treatment had a better chance of success.
Research found cervical cancer rates were 87% lower among young women offered the HPV vaccine at 12 or 13 than among comparable women born earlier who had not been offered it.
Consent forms, school visits, nurses answering questions, records maintained, programmes sustained over years, with an extraordinary return.
The NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, which I link to, offers people at high risk continuing help with food, activity and weight.
NHS England says people completing it reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes by more than a third.
Prevention becomes much more convincing when we can point to a service that's already doing it and there is a newer success.
The HSV vaccination programme, which I linked to this morning, helped reduce hospital admissions associated with the virus by a third among people aged 75 to 79 during its first winter.
And that's a huge achievement for a programme that was only introduced in September 2024.
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