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Have you responded to the screening review call for evidence?

A health professional reviewing mammograms on a computer screen

Professor Sir Mike Richards has been asked to conduct a major review of the English cancer screening programmes as part of a renewed drive to improve care and save lives. Please make any submissions by 18 April.

North East experts by experience help develop new screening easy guides

Publications and information manager Mike Harris showing the draft bowel cancer screening easy guide to expert by experience Leanne and support worker Michelle

Find out how experts by experience from the North East and Cumbria provided vital input into the development of new national easy guides for cervical and bowel cancer screening.

Moving antenatal and newborn screening information into the digital age

A close up of a young women holding a newborn baby

Public Health England, NHS England and NHS Digital have begun an ongoing collaboration to move from printed invitation leaflets to online information, starting with antenatal and newborn screening.

Latest data from the National Congenital Anomaly and Rare Disease Registration Service

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A nurse putting a newborn baby into a cot in a hospital ward

On 3 March 2019, over 150 organisations worldwide marked the fifth annual World Birth Defects Day. The goals for the day are to raise awareness across the globe about congenital conditions, look for opportunities to prevent conditions developing, and support antenatal testing where this is a result of an informed choice.