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Actions for newborn screening providers due to child health changes
Reorganisation of child health information services might cause issues with newborn screening IT systems if local checks are not in place.
NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme
My 30 years in screening, a personal journey involving hypnotic dancing, Mickey Mouse ears and Lancaster bombers
Lindsay Kimm reflects on her 30 years of working in population screening programmes.
Calling all midwives – help us review our screening resource cards
We’re asking midwives to fill in a short survey about our credit card sized collection of plastic resource cards giving information about screening offered in pregnancy and to newborn babies.
Updated newborn hearing screening standards published
We have reviewed and updated the NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme standards. The updated 2017 to 2018 NHSP standards have an implementation date of 1 April 2018.
Student midwives – tell us what you think of our screening resource packs
If you’re reading this then you’ve hopefully seen the PHE ‘screening resource pack for student midwives'. We send it out every year to all universities in England and ask midwifery tutors to give a set to all new starter students. …
What PHE Screening has been blogging about
Here’s a list of every blog issued in January and February 2018.
Get animated about our new screening resource
We have worked with the NHS Choices video team and an animation company to produce a new screening animation, which in just 2 ½ minutes explains all the types of screening offered during pregnancy and for newborn babies.
Bath’s newborn screening team scoops award for innovation
A new pathway that has transformed postnatal care earned the newborn screening team at the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust the team of the month award.
South East London Newborn Hearing Screening Programme is leading the way in KPI performance
Jolanta McCall, of the South East London Newborn Hearing Screening Programme, describes how her service is leading the way in NH2 KPI performance.
Finding out if easy guides to screening meet the needs of pregnant women who have learning disabilities
An evaluation of our Screening tests for you and your baby easy guides will help us to share good practice that will benefit pregnant women with learning disabilities across the country.