BloomShield Programme Portfolio · Volume 2
Removing barriers. Expanding access. Enabling earlier diagnosis.
ScreenAccess™ works with communities, healthcare providers, commissioners and local partners to identify and remove the barriers that prevent people from participating in cancer screening and early diagnosis pathways.
Awareness becomes impact only when access becomes participation.
Programme overview
Screening programmes may exist, but participation is not always equitable. Transport, geography, deprivation, disability, language, digital exclusion, low health literacy, cultural concerns, fear, fragmented services and inflexible appointments can all stand between an invitation and successful participation.
ScreenAccess™ helps partners identify where people are being lost from the pathway and develop practical, community-centred interventions that improve participation.
Screening cannot reduce inequalities if the people at greatest risk cannot access it.
Why ScreenAccess™ exists
Barriers are shaped by systems and circumstances. Understanding them respectfully is the first step towards practical change.
Vision
To ensure that every eligible person has equitable access to evidence-based cancer screening regardless of geography, socioeconomic circumstances, ethnicity, disability, digital literacy or other barriers.
Mission
To work with communities, healthcare providers, commissioners, employers and policymakers to identify, understand and remove barriers that prevent people from participating in life-saving screening programmes.
Programme objectives
Improve screening uptake in underserved communities.
Reduce inequalities in cancer screening participation.
Support earlier cancer diagnosis.
Improve navigation through screening pathways.
Help commissioners achieve population health objectives.
Reduce avoidable late-stage presentations.
Develop sustainable community screening access models.
Strategic pillars
Each pillar can be adapted to local priorities while retaining a consistent implementation structure.
Understanding where and why people are unable to participate.
Taking information, engagement and services closer to communities.
Helping individuals complete the full screening journey.
Supporting partners to redesign how screening is accessed.
Using data and local insight to identify and reduce inequalities.
CCPE implementation pathway
ScreenAccess™ operates through BloomShield’s Cancer Care Partnership Ecosystem implementation framework.
Identify barriers, underserved populations and pathway gaps.
Confirm needs through evidence, data, community engagement and stakeholder insight.
Deliver practical access interventions with local partners.
Measure participation, pathway completion, experience, equity and outcomes.
Expand successful models through commissioning, partnerships and shared learning.
Target populations
ScreenAccess™ may support populations experiencing unequal access. Populations and interventions will always be defined through local evidence, community engagement and co-design—not assumptions.
Example programme activities
The following are examples of potential activity, not claims that every service is currently operational.
Partnership model
ScreenAccess™ is designed as a collaborative implementation programme. BloomShield does not seek to duplicate existing screening services. It works with local partners to improve reach, access, participation and pathway completion.
Expected outcomes
ScreenAccess™ aims to support these outcomes; results will depend on context, delivery partners and the interventions agreed.
Monitoring and evaluation
A proportionate evaluation plan will connect implementation learning with participation, experience and equity.
Programme portfolio
Builds awareness, understanding, confidence and motivation.
Removes barriers and enables equitable participation.
Supports navigation, coordination, follow-up and continuity of care.
Together, the three programmes provide an integrated pathway from awareness to access to coordinated care.
Programme development
ScreenAccess™ is being developed as a flexible implementation programme that can be adapted to local screening priorities, populations and service environments.
BloomShield Programme Portfolio · Volume 2
A concise introduction to the programme's purpose, model, implementation approach and intended outcomes.
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Equity in action
BloomShield works with health systems, commissioners, community organisations, employers and research partners to design practical approaches that reduce barriers and improve participation.
