Jane Woodland

Jane is the regional head of quality assurance (QA) for Midlands and East and has held a number of senior screening posts since 2007. She has led on screening incident guidance since coming into PHE in 2013, working closely with PHE Screening and NHS England colleagues. Her interest in this area stems from experience of a number of large scale screening incidents and, prior to her public health career, of managing clinical services in the NHS.

Working smarter to quality assure antenatal and newborn screening laboratories 

Jane Woodland, 27 July 2018 - NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme, NHS Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy Screening Programme, NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme, NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme, Screening Quality Assurance Service

One of the main roles of Public Health England's (PHE) screening quality assurance service (SQAS) is to carry out formal visits to antenatal and newborn screening services. SQAS works with professional and clinical advisors when visiting laboratories providing screening tests for: …

Managing safety incidents: guidance update

Jane Woodland, 21 August 2017 - General information, Screening Quality Assurance Service

...is needed Screening safety gets special attention because: the public rightly expects NHS screening to be high quality and safe the NHS invites apparently healthy people for screening – this...

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