Antenatal screening for rubella (German measles) susceptibility stops on 1 April 2016.
...report in full, here are some of the key findings for 2014 to 2015: approximately 710,000 women (down from 731,000 in 2013 to 2014) received antenatal screening for sickle cell...
PHE Screening has published an updated information pack to help GPs and primary care professionals advise well men aged 50 and over about prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing for prostate cancer.
...deliver screening for sickle cell and thalassaemia. Antenatal screening for SCT aims to identify people who are genetic carriers of these and other haemoglobin disorders (conditions that affect red blood...
Diabetes UK estimates that more than 4 million people are living with diabetes in the UK. That number has been increasing by around 5% a year, which underlines the scale of the challenge facing local diabetic eye screening programmes that …
...normal beta chains. Other beta globin variants, such as J –Baltimore, are negatively charged andcompete well for the alpha chains and therefore have higher percentages. Another property of a variant...
During March we are mailing out copies of the new print run of the 'Screening tests for you and your baby' booklet to every NHS trust in England that has a maternity unit.
...Of the 41 local AAA programmes, 2 didn’t meet the acceptable threshold, 28 programmes reached the acceptable threshold and 11 reached the achievable threshold of 100%. These figures showed that...
NHS Screening Programmes offers screening to all eligible patients within a defined population. However, ensuring equality of access to services for patient groups with specific needs can be challenging.
If you’ve contacted the screening helpdesk recently, you may have noticed, and you may have even completed, our user survey.
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