Anne Gately’s Post

TARGETED SKIN CHECK PETITION TO PARLIAMENT Show your support for a targeted national skin check program. 🌞In the last two decades since a formal skin cancer screening model was proposed – and deemed too expensive, advances in technology, talent and treatment pathways have significantly improved. Meaning a more efficient and effective model is now a viable option for Government investment. 🔍Economic forecasts from this new model suggest a 30/1 return in savings to the healthcare system, not to mention the thousands of lives saved every year from a co-ordinated pop-up skin check program, targeting high risk communities (particularly in remote / regional Australia). 🏁Non-profit charity Skin Check Champions has worked on a viable model for this program for over a decade, checking more than 10,000 Australian’s and gathering data and improving strategies to inform such an initiative. Their average rate of detection is up around 1 in 25. Which is far higher than any other model previously proposed. 💪The key is technology, talent and targeting. Together, with Federal and State Departments, it’s time Australia backs a ‘Targeted National Skin Check Program’ and start leading the world in the early detection of skin cancer, rather than skin cancer deaths. ✍️You can help make skin cancer history by taking 30 seconds to sign this petition.