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Working smarter to quality assure antenatal and newborn screening laboratories 

A woman inserts sample test tubes into slots

One of the main roles of Public Health England's (PHE) screening quality assurance service (SQAS) is to carry out formal visits to antenatal and newborn screening services. SQAS works with professional and clinical advisors when visiting laboratories providing screening tests for: …

Sickle cell and thalassaemia screening handbook for antenatal laboratories updated

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...of an updated version of the antenatal laboratory handbook for the NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia (SCT) Screening Programme. The updated antenatal laboratory handbook for the NHS Sickle Cell and...

EQA (external quality assessment) in cervical screening: what's it all about?

...National Portfolio Lead for Cervical Screening. This means I have responsibility for representing cervical screening within the Screening Quality Assurance Service (SQAS). I thought it would be useful to explain...