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Screening Quality Assurance Service

Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP): gestational age parameters

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In our last FASP blog we looked at the ‘twice on the couch’ guidance for the first trimester combined test. We now want to raise awareness of the gestational age parameters for both the first and second trimester screening. We continue to emphasise the best …

Can't get an accurate nuchal translucency measurement? Don't let women miss out

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The screening quality assurance service (SQAS) is responsible for assuring the quality of all NHS screening programmes. An important aspect of this role is to ensuring that learning from screening incidents is shared among all local screening providers.