Screening services touch the lives of every family and community across Scotland. In our latest NSS Connected podcast, we catch up with Gareth Brown, Director of Screening for NSS. Gareth talks about the challenges COVID has caused and how screening teams across our NHS have risen to those challenges. He also discusses the future of screening and the opportunity to work collaboratively to continue to improve services.

Gareth also explains the crucial role of the recently established National Screening Oversight (NSO) Group that he leads and how the three components, Scottish Director of Screening, the National Screening Oversight Board (NSOB) and the National Screening Oversight Team (NSO Team), work together.

During the course of 2020/21 the work of the NSO was focussed primarily on supporting the recovery of screening programmes following the COVID-19 pause. The NSO supported partners across the system to develop and implement the screening recovery route map and all national screening programmes had recommenced the offer of screening to participants by October 2020.

Gareth also reveals how he relaxes, shares an impressive musical background and is joined by a surprise guest, his pet dog!

It's all in your latest NSS Connected Screening Special

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Welcome to this special pride episode of the podcast where we discuss all things pronouns. 

To Celebrate Mary Morgan taking up her new role as CEO we did a quiz in her honour and chatted to the women herself! We also talked to some great guests about mental health, operations of NSS and the COVID-19 response.

0:38 - Mary get to know our CEO quiz!

8:52 - Mary on starting her new role.

17:30 - Lauren Kennedy – Lead nurse for mental health and learning disabilities, NHS24

33:12 - Jessica Henderson - National Programme Director for COVID-19 response

49:44 - Joanne Smith - Facilities Manager, Facilities Services