The Northern Ireland Familial Hypercholesterolaemia cascade screening service

Cather, M.; Nicholls, D. P.; Ryan, Kathryn E.; Loughrey, Clodagh; O'Kane, Maurice; Proctor, E. M.; Sharpe, Peter; McCullough, Joseph P.; Hanna, Elinor V.; Chestnutt, Joshua G.; Donnelly, J.; Trinick, Tom; Lyttle, Kerise Alecia; Hart, P. M.; Graham, C.A.

doi:10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2015.10.040

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“…Start years for FH screening were determined from published reports with Norway screening since 1998 [ 18 ] and the Netherlands since 1994 [ 19 ]. Genetic testing has been available in Northern Ireland since 2000 [ 20 ]. Screening in England is reported to have started in 2003 [ 21 ].…”

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A comparison of the Netherlands, Norway and UK familial hypercholesterolemia screening programmes with implications for target setting and the UK’s NHS long term plan

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We sought to determine the most efficacious and cost-effective strategy to follow when developing a national screening programme by comparing and contrasting the national screening programmes of Norway, the Netherlands and the UK. Comparing the detection rates and screening profiles between the Netherlands, Norway, the UK and constituent nations (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) it is clear that maximising the number of relatives screened per index case leads to identification of the greatest proportion of an FH population. The UK has stated targets to detect 25% of the population of England with FH across the 5 years to 2024 with the NHS Long Term Plan. However, this is grossly unrealistic and, based on pre-pandemic rates, will only be reached in the year 2096. We also modelled the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of two screening strategies: 1) Universal screening of 1-2-year-olds, 2) electronic healthcare record screening, in both cases coupled to reverse cascade screening. We found that index case detection from electronic healthcare records was 56% more efficacious than universal screening and, depending on the cascade screening rate of success, 36%-43% more cost-effective per FH case detected. The UK is currently trialling universal screening of 1–2-year-olds to contribute to national FH detection targets. Our modelling suggests that this is not the most efficacious or cost-effective strategy to follow. For countries looking to develop national FH programmes, screening of electronic healthcare records, coupled to successful cascade screening to blood relatives is likely to be a preferable strategy to follow.

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A comparison of the Netherlands, Norway and UK familial hypercholesterolemia screening programmes with implications for target setting and the UK’s NHS long term plan

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A comparison of the Netherlands, Norway and UK Familial Hypercholesterolemia screening programmes with implications for target setting and the UK’s NHS Long Term Plan

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Aims. We sought to determine the most efficacious and cost effective strategy to follow when developing a national screening programme by comparing and contrasting the national screening programmes of Norway, the Netherlands and the UK. Methods and results. Comparing the detection rates and screening profiles between the Netherlands, Norway, the UK and constituent nations (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) it is clear that maximising the number of relatives screened per index case leads to identification of the greatest proportion of an FH population. The UK has stated targets to detect 25% of the FH population of England across the 5 years to 2024 with the NHS Long Term Plan. However, this is grossly unrealistic and, based on prepandemic rates, will only be reached in the year 2098. We also modelled the efficacy and costeffectiveness of two screening strategies: 1) Universal screening of 1 to 2 year olds, 2) electronic healthcare record screening, in both cases coupled to reverse cascade screening. We found that index case detection from electronic healthcare records was 56% more efficacious than universal screening and, depending on the cascade screening rate of success, 36% to 43% more cost effective per FH case detected. Conclusion. The UK is currently trialling universal screening of 1 to 2 year olds to contribute to national FH detection targets. Our modelling suggests that this is not the most efficacious or cost effective strategy to follow. For countries looking to develop national FH programmes, screening of electronic healthcare records, coupled to successful cascade screening to blood relatives is likely to be a preferable strategy to follow.

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The Northern Ireland Familial Hypercholesterolaemia cascade screening service

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A comparison of the Netherlands, Norway and UK familial hypercholesterolemia screening programmes with implications for target setting and the UK’s NHS long term plan

A comparison of the Netherlands, Norway and UK familial hypercholesterolemia screening programmes with implications for target setting and the UK’s NHS long term plan

A comparison of the Netherlands, Norway and UK Familial Hypercholesterolemia screening programmes with implications for target setting and the UK’s NHS Long Term Plan

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