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Calling all midwives – help us review our screening resource cards

The pocket sized resource cards on a table.

We’re asking midwives to fill in a short survey about our credit card sized collection of plastic resource cards giving information about screening offered in pregnancy and to newborn babies.

Student midwives – tell us what you think of our screening resource packs

If you’re reading this then you’ve hopefully seen the PHE ‘screening resource pack for student midwives'. We send it out every year to all universities in England and ask midwifery tutors to give a set to all new starter students. …

Get animated about our new screening resource

Parents look at newborn baby. Words say: 'you can decide which tests are right for you and your baby.'

We have worked with the NHS Choices video team and an animation company to produce a new screening animation, which in just 2 ½ minutes explains all the types of screening offered during pregnancy and for newborn babies.

Is your browser ready for the newborn blood spot failsafe solution update?

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Picture of babys hand compared with adult's hand.

On 11 April 2018 we will be upgrading NBSFS and the new version will only work with Internet Explorer version 10 and above. This is because the older versions of Internet Explorer are obsolete and do not have the required level of security. The NBSFS will continue to work on the Chrome / Firefox browsers.

Finding out if easy guides to screening meet the needs of pregnant women who have learning disabilities

An evaluation of our Screening tests for you and your baby easy guides will help us to share good practice that will benefit pregnant women with learning disabilities across the country.

We’ve published first annual fetal anomaly screening data report

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Screen showing the FASP laboratoty handbook. Specimen transport section has been highlighted in red.

We are pleased to publish the first annual data report for the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP).

We have published the first annual data report for the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP). It covers the period 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016 and provides feedback on completeness of data submission and performance against the national standards.

We’ve updated sickle cell and thalassaemia screening guidelines for counselling and referral for prenatal diagnosis

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We have updated our national guidance on counselling and referral for prenatal diagnosis for women and couples at risk of having a baby with sickle cell disease or thalassaemia major.