Tips & hints to support your practice access the National Cancer Screening Register

The National Cancer Screening Register (NCSR) is a fabulous tool to provide you direct real-time online access to your patients cervical and bowel cancer screening history.

Below are some tips to assist you seamlessly access the NCSR:

1.The Register is located outside of Health Professional Online Service (HPOS) tile ie is not an option under “My Programs”. The NSCR tile is located under "Available services" on the PRODA home page.

2. HPOS and NSCR delegation are two separate processes for nurse and non-clinical staff. To access the Register via the Healthcare Provider Portal, nurse and non-clinical staff will need to request delegation via the NCSR tile.

3.Once you have gained access and have logged in to the Register via the Healthcare Provider Portal there is no functionality to go “back” and access other services under PRODA such as HPOS. Do to so, you will need to log out of Healthcare Provider Portal and log back into PRODA to access other services.

5. Consider setting up access to the Register via the Healthcare Provider Portal prior to integrating software. NSCR integration is a complex process involving your IT provider. By accessing the Register via the Healthcare Provider Portal initially allows your team to access patient screening history and information while the software integration process occurs.

4. The NSCR software integration process and initial registration needs to occur be done under the organisations PRODA not your practice Responsible Officer (RO) PRODA.

5. Patient screening history results which are accessible via both the Healthcare Provider Portal and NCSR software integration are in PDF format. To save screening history results in a patients electronic medical record, results will need to be downloaded onto your desktop or folder and imported into your GPs pathology inbox to be reviewed and saved correctly against the patients file.

For further information to support you access the NSCR, please view the PHN National Cancer Screening Register User Access Guide in the resource section or speak with your Primary Care Improvement Officer.