A new survey report highlights best practice for newborn screening in non-maternity settings.
Revisions to two NHS Newborn and Infant Physical Examination (NIPE) screening programme clinical guidance documents have been published.
We’ve updated our guidance on offering newborn blood spot (NBS) screening to movers in under a year of age without available results.
The guidance is changing because 3 out of the 4 UK countries now offer NBS screening for all 9 conditions recommended by the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC).
Reorganisation of child health information services might cause issues with newborn screening IT systems if local checks are not in place.
Lindsay Kimm reflects on her 30 years of working in population screening programmes.
A list of every blog issued in March 2018.
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.
We have reviewed and updated the NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme standards. The updated 2017 to 2018 NHSP standards have an implementation date of 1 April 2018.
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. …
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.