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Updated standards for sickle cell and thalassaemia screening

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Over the past few months, the NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia (SCT) Screening Programme has consulted widely with colleagues from a range of services, including midwifery, specialist nurses and clinicians, screening laboratories, and patient organisations to help us revise and …

Improving screening care for pregnant women is as easy as ABC

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In this blog article, antenatal and newborn screening coordinator Louise Frost explains how the creation of an antenatal booking centre (ABC)  improved early access and continuity of care for women at Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) in south east London.

Latest KPI figures (2016 to 2017 Q2) show how screening programmes are performing

Today we published the key performance indicator (KPI) data for the second quarter of 2016 to 2017 (Q2, July to September 2016). The KPIs are used to measure how the NHS screening programmes are performing and aim to give a …