NHS expands high-res skin imaging to speed up cancer diagnoses and treatment for tens of thousands of patients

NHS expands high-res skin imaging to speed up cancer diagnoses and treatment for tens of thousands of patients Tens of thousands of patients are set to receive a diagnosis and treatment for skin cancer faster, with accelerated NHS rollout of ‘teledermatology’, which involves taking high spec images of spots, moles or lesions on people’s skin.

The simple technology which consists of a small lens the size of a 50p piece that can be attached to a phone camera, also called a dermatoscope, is enabling specialist dermatologists to double the number of patients they can review in a day. NHS England