National Lung Cancer Screening Program
Clinical items, qualifiers and reports for the National Lung Cancer Screening Program (NLCSP) are available for all health services through Central.
- Targets eligible people aged 50-70 years of age with a history of tobacco cigarette smoking.
- Provides free low-dose CT scans to participants every two years unless a screen-detected abnormality is found.
Healthcare providers with an MBS provider number and authority to request CT imaging provide eligible participants with a low-dose CT scan request form and enrol participants in the program.
If your health service is already registered with the NCSR for the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program or the National Cervical Cancer Screening Program, you do not need to register again. If your health service is not registered, see https://www.ncsr.gov.au/information-for-healthcare-providers/healthcare-provider-forms-and-guides/healthcare-provider-portal-user-guide.html for more information.
- To identify patients who may be eligible to participate
in the NLCSP, use a report that includes the smoking status
qualifier. This qualifier is used in many reports, particularly check ups. For
example:
- Addiction;smoking;tobacco
- Advice/education;smoking
- CV Risk Calculator...
- Check up;Aboriginal
- Check up;RHD and acute rheumatic fever
- Check up;antenatal
- Check up;over 75s
- Cough;smokers...
- Counselling;smoking
- Cycle of care;annual;diabetes
- Exam;pre-consult
- ITC...
- Inhalation;smoke
- National Lung Cancer Screening Program
- Passive smoking
- Problems;smoking;tobacco
- Smokerlyzer...
- Smokers lung
- Smoking;tobacco
- Unable (to);stop smoking
- iSISTAQUIT;Assessment
- Clinical items:
- National Lung Cancer Screening ProgramNote:Your Communicare Administrator should add Low Dose CT scan to your health service's investigations list and keywords.
- Results;lung cancer screening LDCT
- National Lung Cancer Screening Program
- Qualifiers:
- Start Smoking Age
- Quit Smoking Age
- Duration Smoking
- Average Daily Cigarette Consumption
- Smoking Pack-Years
- Letter template for referrals:
- NLCSP Low Dose CT Referral (linked clinical information)
- Automatic recall rules for recalls based on results: On Qualifier
Results;lung cancer screening LDCT Recall for
National Lung Cancer Screening Program, trigger for 24
months, 12 months, 6 months, 3 months.
For more information, see Lung cancer screening recalls.
Your Communicare Administrator may need to manually enable the clinical items in
and enable the automated recalls before clinicians can use them.For Communicare technical support, speak to your Communicare Administrator or contact Communicare Support as normal.