From September 2016, London Metropolitan University will deliver a module in haemoglobinopathies, which counts towards a master’s degree in blood science.
...you can print off a certificate for your CPD portfolio. We are grateful to the valuable feedback from practitioners who piloted the resource. These included: midwives midwife lecturers antenatal and...
We have updated our very popular resource cards for midwives to reflect the fact that screening for rubella susceptibility in pregnancy ended on 1 April 2016.
...report in full, here are some of the key findings for 2014 to 2015: approximately 710,000 women (down from 731,000 in 2013 to 2014) received antenatal screening for sickle cell...
...deliver screening for sickle cell and thalassaemia. Antenatal screening for SCT aims to identify people who are genetic carriers of these and other haemoglobin disorders (conditions that affect red blood...
...normal beta chains. Other beta globin variants, such as J –Baltimore, are negatively charged andcompete well for the alpha chains and therefore have higher percentages. Another property of a variant...
During March we are mailing out copies of the new print run of the 'Screening tests for you and your baby' booklet to every NHS trust in England that has a maternity unit.
...definition for each laboratory, we collated several years’ worth of antenatal data on screen positive women (carriers). This was more fruitful than using the newborn data, as we had done...
All women and babies should have access to high quality antenatal and newborn screening programmes.
25 February 2016: Please note that the new easy read versions of Screening tests for you and your baby, which are featured in this blog post, have been temporarily withdrawn and are not currently available Every maternity trust in England …