Nadia Permalloo

Nadia is Head of Screening Quality Assurance Development (Clinical) for the Screening Quality Assurance Service (National team)
Nadia Permalloo has worked in screening since 1998. She has worked in screening programmes at local, regional and national levels and is a registered nurse and midwife.

Nadia currently works nationally in quality assurance for the PHE Screening Quality Assurance Service. She cares that women and babies have high quality care and that we should be continually striving to improve what we do by supporting and developing staff delivering screening programmes.

Launch of easy read versions of Screening tests for you and your baby

Nadia Permalloo, 10 February 2017 - General information, NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme, NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme, NHS Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy Screening Programme, NHS Newborn and Infant Physical Examination, NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme, NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme, NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme

One of the values we hold dear in PHE Screening is supporting individuals to make an informed choice about screening.

Shared learning: mask helps improve KPI performance for fetal anomaly screening

Alex Davidson and Nadia Permalloo, 29 June 2016 - General information

Background All eligible pregnant women in England are offered screening for Down’s, Edwards’ and Patau’s syndromes. Staff must fully complete the laboratory request form with the correct information to enable the screening laboratory to process the sample without delay and …

Share your experience and good ideas to improve screening for all

Nadia Permalloo, 25 May 2016 - General information, Screening Quality Assurance Service

Do you have some learning to share? Then we want to hear from you. 

Newborn and Infant Physical Examination Screening Programme (NIPE) Standards launched

Nadia Permalloo, 10 May 2016 - NHS Newborn and Infant Physical Examination

...2017 NIPE standards Over the past year, many professionals and other stakeholders have helped us revise the original 2008 NIPE standards. We used PHE Screening's common approach to setting standards...

Failsafe 'return of serve' ensures screening referrals are safe

Nadia Permalloo and Lisa Summers, 5 February 2016 - NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme, Screening Quality Assurance Service

...should monitor the outcome of all your referrals in order to show how well the screening programme is working. How does this work in the NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)...

Tracking each step of the antenatal screening pathway

Nadia Permalloo and Siobhan O’Callaghan, 21 January 2016 - Screening Quality Assurance Service

...the fetal anomaly screening programme (FASP) should be reported within three working days of sample receipt in the laboratory more than 97% of HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis screening test...

Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP): gestational age parameters

Annette McHugh, Nadia Permalloo and Sheila Miller, 18 December 2015 - NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme, Screening Quality Assurance Service

...screening result, including women who ‘did not attend’ appointments? Have you ever audited all or any of the above? If not, why not put it in a work-plan today! -...

AAA screening: sharing good practice across the capital

Nadia Permalloo, 23 November 2015 - NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme

...meet the national quality standards by sharing knowledge and good practice. Invitations have been issued but anyone else interested in registering can email the London SQAS team at PHE.LondonQA@nhs.net. Issues...

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