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

As we launch the 2016 to 2017 NHS Newborn and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) standards I am reminded of this quote by George Bernard Shaw: The only man I know...

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

...3. A referral is sent by Trust A to Trust B by email but not followed up any further 4. Mr. Jones does not receive an appointment to see the...

Tracking each step of the antenatal screening pathway

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

...thalassaemia (SCT) screening test results should be reported within three working days of sample receipt in the laboratory more than 99% of Down’s, Edwards’ and Patau’s screening test results in...

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

In our last FASP blog we looked at the ‘twice on the couch’ guidance for the first trimester combined test. We now want to raise awareness of the gestational age...

AAA screening: sharing good practice across the capital

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

...meeting for abdominal aortic aneurysm screening programmes in the capital at the end of this month. The meeting, on Friday 27 November at the University of London, is open to...

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