NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme
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.
All women and babies should have access to high quality antenatal and newborn screening programmes.
...I am confident this will improve standards overall. Sonographer, South West. The training was very valuable and well organised. Thank you. Sonographer, West Midlands. We’re now halfway through our programme...
25 February 2016: Please note that the new easy read versions of Screening tests for you and your baby, which are featured in this blog post, have been temporarily withdrawn and are not currently available Every maternity trust in England …
...recommended against screening for a number of other conditions. These included congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) in newborns, glaucoma, hearing loss in older adults, mucopolysaccharidosis type I (MPS I), neuroblastoma in...
We, the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP), have continued our development of resources for screening support sonographers (SSS).
Firstly, a very happy new year to all readers of the PHE Screening blog! The end of December is traditionally a time to reflect on the previous year and I'm sure many of you will have read many such articles …
Watch Dr Anne Mackie, director of screening in Public Health England, reflecting on 2015, calling it "a particularly exciting year for screening". Please note that you can turn on subtitles for this video.
...along the screening pathway: Does your maternity booking appointment system enable and encourage women to book as early as possible? Do you prioritise booking appointments by gestational age? How do...
The screening quality assurance service (SQAS) is responsible for assuring the quality of all NHS screening programmes. An important aspect of this role is to ensuring that learning from screening incidents is shared among all local screening providers.
