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Liane Powell

Liane has worked in screening since 2013, firstly as an Antenatal and Newborn Screening Coordinator for a multi-site NHS Trust, then as Project Lead within the Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme.
She loves the variety and depth of the work within the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Programmes, and the rewards and challenges that working within PHE Screening brings.
She is a registered midwife and nurse and remains focussed on enabling high quality care for women and babies.
She lives near the Lake District and enjoys spending time exploring the Lakeland fells with her family, from their trusty campervan.

Antenatal and newborn screening information – digital by default

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Antenatal and newborn screening providers should now be signposting parents routinely to digital versions of information leaflets rather than automatically handing out printed leaflets.

New support is available for NHS antenatal and newborn screening providers to offer more digital screening info

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With coronavirus limiting social contact, we have been helping maternity providers to signpost women to digital versions of our NHS antenatal and newborn screening information.

Find out what happened at our event about digital screening information for pregnant women

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Read about our event for Trust screening co-ordinators as part of our work to move to digital antenatal and newborn screening information.

User research into antenatal and newborn digital screening information

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We've been busy asking people for their views about the move to digital screening information. Find out more about the different ways we've been consulting with our users.