NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme
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.
...we discussed roles and responsibilities and raised two important points: if a baby is transferred into a health visitor’s care, why can’t they access that baby’s screening results if they...
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, if that’s the case, then I'm not sure how many words a video adds up to. We have developed 9...
...babies in special care units. It also includes information on differences in follow-on care for premature babies after infectious diseases in pregnancy screening. You should order enough leaflets to give...
Just a reminder that the consultation on a revised version of the guidelines for newborn blood spot sampling closes on 29 September. These guidelines, which were last updated in 2012,...
...this is before the baby is born while for others it is shortly after birth but before they start to show symptoms. This enables parents to make informed choices about...
...current guidelines. We’re now asking for your views on the updates – a consultation on the revised guidelines opens today for four weeks. We are emailing all our stakeholders a...
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). NBSFS is a web-based system that helps...