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Celebrate the first International Neonatal Screening Day today, 28 June 2021

Professional and patient organisations and health systems around the world are celebrating International Neonatal Screening Day for this first time today.

Supporting informed choice in NHS screening – a view from Cancer Research UK

Public Health England Screening asked Cancer Research UK to tell us about their work on informed choice. Sophia Lowes, a health information manager at CRUK, tells us more.

Inequalities consistently addressed in quality assurance visits to local NHS screening services

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A national audit of quality assurance visits to local screening services found that SQAS teams consistently address inequalities in visits across all screening programmes.

Thank you, thank you, thank you – what you do makes a difference

We (PHE Screening, and NHS England and NHS Improvement) want to take a moment to recognise the huge contribution of all staff who work so hard to deliver the NHS antenatal and newborn screening programmes.

NIPT to be evaluated as a new part of NHS screening pathway for Down’s syndrome, Edwards’ syndrome and Patau’s syndrome

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Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) was today added to the existing NHS screening pathway for Down’s syndrome, Edwards’ syndrome and Patau’s syndrome.