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North East experts by experience help develop new screening easy guides

Publications and information manager Mike Harris showing the draft bowel cancer screening easy guide to expert by experience Leanne and support worker Michelle

Find out how experts by experience from the North East and Cumbria provided vital input into the development of new national easy guides for cervical and bowel cancer screening.

Moving antenatal and newborn screening information into the digital age

A close up of a young women holding a newborn baby

Public Health England, NHS England and NHS Digital have begun an ongoing collaboration to move from printed invitation leaflets to online information, starting with antenatal and newborn screening.

Latest data from the National Congenital Anomaly and Rare Disease Registration Service

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A nurse putting a newborn baby into a cot in a hospital ward

On 3 March 2019, over 150 organisations worldwide marked the fifth annual World Birth Defects Day. The goals for the day are to raise awareness across the globe about congenital conditions, look for opportunities to prevent conditions developing, and support antenatal testing where this is a result of an informed choice.

We’re updating the clinical care standards for children with sickle cell disease and want your views

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A black woman and her 2 children on the cover of the sickle cell disease in childhood standards from 2010 with the words 'we want your views on the clinical care standards' on a purple background

We are working with the Sickle Cell Society to update the Sickle Cell Disease in Childhood: Standards and guidelines for clinical care 2nd edition. Please let us know what you think of the clinical care standards.