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New blood spot sampling guidelines – give us your views

Posted by: Christine Cavanagh, Posted on: 2 September 2015 - Categories: NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme

The NHS Newborn Blood Spot screening programme screens babies for nine rare but serious conditions by taking blood from the baby’s heel using a special device. This sample is placed onto a blood spot card and sent to a lab …

Exciting developments with blood spot failsafe

Posted by: Christine Cavanagh, Posted on: 24 July 2015 - Categories: NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme

In today’s blog post we’d like to tell you about the great progress we’ve made with the Newborn Blood Spot Failsafe Solution (NBSFS).