Telstra Health has charged ahead with the development of the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR) despite recent public controversy over its contract win, having now completed the 'discovery' phase involving consulting on business processes with the existing bowel and cervical screening registers.

According to the latest update on the build of the register from the NCSR implementation branch at the Department of Health, Telstra Health has built infrastructure for pathology providers to be able to exchange messages with the register, which will soon be provided to providers to test against.