Scans have been carried out at GP practices, addiction recovery services, food banks, diabetes clinics, sexual health clinics and homeless shelters.
An NHS programme to deliver on-the-spot scans to people at risk of liver cancer has identified hundreds of people with disease that needs further checks.
From more than 7,000 scans carried out between June last year and this January, more than 830 people with cirrhosis or advanced fibrosis have been identified and referred for further care.People at risk, who are being targeted by the programme, include those who drink too much, those with viral hepatitis or a history of it, and people with non-alcoholic liver disease.
Dame Cally Palmer, national cancer director for the NHS in England, said: “Building on the success of other community diagnostic schemes, like our lung trucks, this innovative surveillance programme is bringing life-saving checks to people who are at a higher risk of liver cancer, and who may have found it difficult to come forward or access health care otherwise.
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