We have updated and published in accessible digital format the national NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia (SCT) Screening Programme information about being a carrier of a sickle cell, thalassamia or other unusual haemoglobin gene. These digital leaflets provide pregnant women …
Directing people to digital information about NHS antenatal and newborn screening programmes should now be business as usual.
Newly published guidance includes 30 principles for the effective use of text messaging within the NHS screening programmes.
Screening tests for you and your baby: babies in special care units publication updated in accessible digital format.
Antenatal screening providers should be developing plans to replace the national printed family origin questionnaire from spring 2021 onwards.
Support and next steps for local NHS AAA screening providers in making transition to digital information.
Diabetic eye screening services should now be directing people to digital versions of leaflets where possible
All inherited metabolic disease leaflets for newborn blood spot screening have been converted into HTML format.
Antenatal and newborn screening providers should now be signposting parents routinely to digital versions of information leaflets rather than automatically handing out printed leaflets.
We have blogged before about the need to reduce the use of printed leaflets by NHS screening services and make the most of digital information opportunities. PHE has been producing more and more online information about the NHS screening programmes and …