Self-Collection Cervical Screening Project

What is the Cervical Screening Self-Collection in Primary Care project?

This is a quality improvement project run by Brisbane North PHN to increase cervical screening rates and uptake of self-collection in our region.

Through your participation in this project, your practice will be instrumental in increasing access to self-collection in our community.

Practices will receive support to increase self-collection rates in your practice, including:

• support to use your practice software to analyse practice data and identify patients for self-collection
• access to continuous quality improvement (CQI) resources, including HealthPathways
• a whole of practice education opportunity
• access to education webinars
• community and patient awareness via a focused social media campaign.

Practice participation will require:

• the time of at least one GP, nurse and practice manager for project continuity
• completion of a short pre- and post-project questionnare
• attendance at one of two education webinars for participating practice staff
• implementation of a CQI activity to measure change
• data sharing with Brisbane North PHN of deidentified self-collection cervical screening rates during the project period. This deidentified data will be shared with Queensland Health Cancer Screening branch to support the project evaluation.

Data sharing and eligibility

Practices that are using the Primary Sense clinical audit tool and that have a current data sharing agreement in place with Brisbane North PHN ensuring the secure sharing of data are eligible to participate in this project.

Primary Sense prompts will be used to identify a patient's eligibility for cervical screening and reports will be available for GPs for targeted intervention/recall and measuring quality improvement over time.

Brisbane North PHN will receive data reports from participating practices identifying the eligible population and number of patients undertaking cervical screening through self-collection both at the outset of the project and after approximately 6 months of participation.