Guidance

SCT screening: handbook for newborn laboratories

Policy and standards for newborn laboratories working with the NHS sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) screening programme.

• From: NHS England
• Published: 24 November 2021

Applies to England

Documents

Overview and conditions

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Newborn screening

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Acceptable analytical protocols

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Interpretation and reporting of results

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Action values for tandem mass spectrometry screening

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Reporting newborn sickle cell results

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Quality control measures for newborn screening for sickle cell disease

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SCT screening: tandem mass spectrometry newborn screening pilot study

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Details

This is the fifth edition of the NHS sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) screening programme handbook for laboratories involved in newborn screening.

This handbook is for staff working in newborn screening laboratories. It brings together in one publication the national guidelines, recommendations, standards and specifications for the NHS SCT screening programme that relate to the work performed by screening laboratories.

The final attachment in this handbook, the Tandem Mass Spectrometry for Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Newborn Screening Pilot Study, was published by Public Health England in 2015 before the public health system reforms into the current structures.

See SCT screening: handbook for antenatal laboratories for policy and standards for SCT screening antenatal laboratories.

Contact the screening helpdesk with any queries about this publication, making sure you include its full title.

Published 24 November 2021