Evaluation of the targeted lung health check programme for NHS England

Between 2019 and 2024, Ipsos, working with the NHS Strategy Unit, delivered an evaluation of the targeted lung health check programme for NHS England. The programme and its evaluation set out to test whether the promising results displayed in earlier pilots and trials were replicated at a larger scale and in real world, busy NHS settings.

Our study included

• An impact evaluation, assessing whether the programme had impacted on cancer stage at diagnosis, mortality and service use (and any inequalities within these outcomes); and
• A process evaluation, exploring the uptake of the health checks, staff and patient experiences of the health checks, the implementation and design of the health checks, and their costs.
   

This web page includes the main products from the evaluation:

• An infographic capturing the key findings;
• The full evaluation report;
• Supporting appendices;
• A detailed analysis of the patient pathways using a patient level dataset.