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NHS Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy Screening Programme

A failsafe officer is for life, not just for Christmas

I’m the antenatal and newborn screening coordinator at Northampton General Hospital. That means I’m responsible for making sure we offer and carry out all antenatal and newborn screening tests  correctly for mothers and babies in our care.

Getting out and about to make sense of antenatal screening data collection

Our 3 antenatal screening programmes have joined forces with the national Screening Quality Assurance Service (SQAS) team to hold 8 regional workshops during 2017.

We’re changing the way we collect and report infectious diseases in pregnancy screening data

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The National Antenatal Infection Screening Monitoring (NAISM) team in Public Health England’s National Infection Service (NIS) has published the 2015 annual summary report on antenatal screening for infectious diseases.

Latest KPI figures (2016 to 2017 Q2) show how screening programmes are performing

Today we published the key performance indicator (KPI) data for the second quarter of 2016 to 2017 (Q2, July to September 2016). The KPIs are used to measure how the NHS screening programmes are performing and aim to give a …

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

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

Exciting changes ahead for e-learning

Public Health England doesn’t directly train people how to carry out screening in the NHS. We’d love to visit you all but sadly don’t have the resources to do this.

We’ve updated the antenatal and newborn screening programmes e-learning resource

Laptop and books depicting e-learning

We’ve updated the antenatal and newborn screening e-learning module in line with clinical best practice and quality assurance requirements.

Screening stand proves big draw for midwives at RCM conference

More than 1,000 midwives, students and other health professionals flocked to the Harrogate International Centre for this year’s Royal College of Midwives (RCM) conference on 19 and 20 October.