Guidance

Newborn and infant physical examination screening: standards

Standards for the NHS newborn and infant physical examination (NIPE) screening programme.

Applies to England

Documents

Details

These documents present the national screening standards for the NHS newborn and infant physical examination (NIPE) screening programme.

The most recently added standards apply to data collected from 1 April 2021 onwards. They have been published to give advance notice. The 2018 standards apply until 1 April 2021.

See Population screening: our approach to screening standards for the consistent approach taken to screening standards across all 11 NHS screening programmes.

Published 1 March 2008
Last updated 7 March 2024 + show all updates
  1. • NIPE testes standard S05 updated • NIPE hip standard S04 redesignated as a KPI

  2. Removal of pathway and themes diagram.

  3. Removed the 2016 to 2017 standards PDF.

  4. Added revised standards for data collected from 1 April 2021 onwards.

  5. Added new format for standards publications and links to new glossary terms.

  6. Added minor correction to neonatal hip risk factors under standard 4.

  7. Publication of new standards applicable from 1 April 2018

  8. 2016 to 2017 standards added.

  9. First published.