The population within a particular age group that is of interest to a SCREENING PROGRAMME at a given date.

SCREENING PROGRAMMES need to serve larger populations than those of individual PRIMARY CARE TRUSTS; in some cases these populations will be larger than STRATEGIC HEALTH AUTHORITIES. Effective population sizes will vary with individual screening programmes. Approximate population sizes for securing and delivering any given screening programme will be determined at a national level.

The population responsibilities of a PRIMARY CARE TRUST are for patients on the lists of the GPs in the PRIMARY CARE TRUST and for the unregistered population who live in the geographical area for which the PRIMARY CARE TRUST is responsible.

This class is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	SCREENING POPULATIONS