WP 9 Working Group Meeting on Colorectal Cancer Screening in Riga.
Day 1, 25 May 2015
09:00 Opening
Welcome. Mārcis Leja. (5 min.)
Welcome from the representative of Ministry of Health. (5 min.)
Introduction to cancer screening aims and outcome within CanCon. Ahti Anttila. (5 min.)
09.25 Relevant aspects for decision-making in colorectal cancer screening
9.25-09.40 Nea Malila. Evidence base and criteria on benefits and harms of organized colorectal cancer screening programs (15+10 min.)
09.40-10.05 Isabelle Soerjomataram. Burden of colorectal cancer and expectation in Europe; how screening programs could affect it. (15+10 min.)
10.05-10.30 TDB. The role of public communication and social involvement. (15+10 min.)
10.30-11.00 Coffee break and Poster rounds
Poster reports on the status of CRC screening programs in the participating countries. Countries are requested to add budgeting information and quality assurance aspects (availability of system, budget) to the posters
11.00 Relevant aspects for decision-making in colorectal cancer screening (cont’d.)
11.00-11.25 Hans Petter Aarseth (tbc, Norway). Health care resources. (15+10 min.)
11.25-11.40 Iris Landsdorp-Vogelaar. Health-economic perspectives. (15+10 min.)
11.40-12.00 Nero Segan. How to ensure that one achieves the expected impact, discussion (5+15 min.)
12.00 LUNCH BREAK
13.00 Implementation of CRC screening
13.00-13.20 Patricia Villain (IARC). Implementation status of colorectal cancer screening programs in Europe.
13.20-15.00 Country presentations (15+5 min each)
Presentations by Steven Halloran (UK), Isabel Portillo-Villares (Basque country), Bohumil Seifert (Czech), Marcis Leja (Latvia), Bojan Tepes (Slovenia)
What is the current implementation status?
Resources in planning, feasibility testing, implementation
Mandate and actual resources for the screening management team
Legal framework
Organising services, incl. issues in
IT, monitoring (with key findings) and evaluation plans
Quality assurance (incl. resources in it)
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-15.45 Poster report (TBD)
17.45-16.45 Round table including all important stakeholders
How to make implementation successful?
Chair: Nereo Segnan
S.Halloran, Iris Landsdorp-Vogelaar, N.Malila, P.Villain, patient organization representatives
16.45-17.00 Conclusions: what should MS keep in mind when deciding to implement programs?
19.00 Working Dinner (Riga City Centre)
Day 2, 26 May 2015
09.00 Issues in quality-assured implementation of CRC screening (15 + 10)
9.00-9.25 Stephen Halloran. Choice of the screening test (15 + 10 min.)
9.25-9.55 Roland Valori. How to implement quality assurance systems and data monitoring in colonoscopy (20 + 10 min.)
9.55-10.20. Bohumil Seifert. Role of primary practice physicians. (15+10 min.)
10.20-10.40 Bojan Tepes. Linking the resources (data bases) (15+5 min.)
10.40-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.00 Legal framework
11.00 -11.30 Hans Storm. Expectation in changes of EU regulations, relevance to screening and data linkage.
Discussion
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.50 Discussion on the outcomes of the meeting, planning the manuscript (N.Malila, M.Leja)
14.50 Conclusions and closing