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User testing for NCSR to begin but bowel screening register on the back-burner

7 June 2017
By Kate McDonald

User testing for the cervical cancer screening element of the National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR) is due to begin in mid-July, with the first jurisdiction to migrate to the new system in October and the full system on track in time for the delayed start to the cervical cancer renewal program on December 1, Department of Health officials say.

Work on moving the paper-based bowel cancer screening program to the new register, which was supposed to go live on March 20, has been pushed back to next year as the department and program vendor Telstra Health concentrate fully on the more complex cervical cancer program, the delay to which is costing $13.5 million.

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