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New quality assurance e-learning screening modules
We've launched 3 e-learning modules aimed at our screening quality assurance service staff and the professional and clinical advisors who provide specialist expertise.
Screening Quality Assurance Service
Working smarter to quality assure antenatal and newborn screening laboratories
One of the main roles of Public Health England's (PHE) screening quality assurance service (SQAS) is to carry out formal visits to antenatal and newborn screening services. SQAS works with professional and clinical advisors when visiting laboratories providing screening tests for: …
Shared learning at QA forum
The London screening quality assurance service recently held a forum for heads of midwifery and screening coordinators.
What PHE Screening has been blogging about
Here’s a list of every blog issued in January and February 2018.
Primary HPV testing update
Ruth Stubbs, PHE's Cervical Screening Programme Manager, shares how the plans for introducing HPV primary screening are coming along.
Improving quality in Down’s, Edwards’ and Patau’s screening laboratories
Shared learning in this blog post is specifically aimed at laboratories that provide Down’s, Edwards’ and Patau’s screening.
Away day highlights importance of working together when managing screening incidents
It never ceases to amaze me what we can accomplish when we get the right people in the room. Around 50 delegates from the Screening quality Assurance Service (SQAS) North and Screening and Immunisation Teams (SITs) in the region along with Jane Woodland, Regional Head of QA Midlands and East, and newborn blood spot (NBS) laboratory directors attended a recent away day event.
Have your say on the future of the screening quality assurance service
The screening quality assurance service is launching a period of informal consultation on a revised national operating model.
Exciting opportunity to chair new screening quality assurance advisory committee
Do you have what it takes to chair PHE’s new Screening Quality Assurance Advisory Committee?
It’s so helpful to share learning from safety incidents in screening
Antenatal and newborn screening coordinator shares learning from a screening safety incident in the fetal anomaly screening programme.