How we’ve improved newborn hearing screening and reduced parental anxiety
The NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme screens babies during the first few weeks of their lives to find those who are born with hearing loss.
Ten years on and AAA screening is going strong
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Jonothan Earnshaw, Posted on:
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NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme
NHS AAA Screening Programme clinical lead Jonothan Earnshaw reflects on the programme's achievements since the government announced funding for a national programme 10 years ago.
Breast screening programme publishes 2 new best practice guides for mammographers
...may need to be a repeat examination or a recall to a second appointment for technical reasons to obtain an image of appropriate quality. Technical recall and repeat examinations The...
Have your say on the future of the screening quality assurance service
The screening quality assurance service is launching a period of informal consultation on a revised national operating model.
Exciting opportunity to chair new screening quality assurance advisory committee
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Mike Harris, Posted on:
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General information, Screening Quality Assurance Service
Do you have what it takes to chair PHE’s new Screening Quality Assurance Advisory Committee?
It’s so helpful to share learning from safety incidents in screening
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Mandy Staffer, Posted on:
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NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme, Screening Quality Assurance Service
Antenatal and newborn screening coordinator shares learning from a screening safety incident in the fetal anomaly screening programme.
User guide published for newborn blood spot failsafe solution
We have published a new user guide for the newborn blood spot failsafe solution on GOV.UK.
How we’re getting it right for testing and training diabetic eye image graders
The latest data shows that diabetic eye screening graders are very good at correctly identifying cases with referable disease, and classifying those cases with no referable disease as not requiring referral.