Guidance

Newborn hearing screening programme: standards

Screening standards for the NHS newborn hearing screening programme (NHSP).

• From: NHS England
• Published: 1 July 2010
• Last updated: 8 May 2025
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  1. 8 May 2025

     Removed standards for 2018 to 2022

  2. 9 October 2024

     Updated July 2024 to remove all reference to community model thresholds.

  3. 23 February 2022

     Updated the supporting information document: see the chapter titled 'Summary of changes from previous version of standard' for details. Added 'Newborn hearing screening programme standards valid for data collected from 1 April 2022' and deleted the outdated 'NHS newborn hearing screening programme standards 2016 to 2017'.

  4. 12 March 2021

     Removal of pathway and themes diagram.

  5. 12 March 2018

     Added glossary links to standard 1.

  6. 6 March 2018

     Published new NHSP standards being implemented from 1 April 2018.

  7. 4 April 2016

     Added NHS newborn hearing screening programme standards 2016 to 2017.

  8. 1 July 2010

     First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Newborn hearing screening: supporting information

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Newborn hearing screening programme standards: valid for data collected from 1 April 2022

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Details

These documents present the national screening standards for the NHS newborn hearing screening programme (NHSP).

The most recent standards are applicable to data collected from 1 April 2022. They replace previous versions.

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