Guidance

Newborn blood spot screening: standards

Screening standards for the NHS newborn blood spot (NBS) screening programme.

Applies to England

Documents

Details

These documents present the national screening standards for the NHS newborn blood spot (NBS) screening programme.

The most recent standards apply to data collected from 1 April 2020. 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.

This publication was previously published by Public Health England, which closed on 30 September 2021.

Updates to this page

Published 1 January 2014
Last updated 8 October 2024 + show all updates
  1. Added clarification that publication was previously published by Public Health England.

  2. Removal of pathway and themes diagram.

  3. Updated Newborn blood spot screening supporting information: sections NBS-S07a, NBS-S07b and NBS-S07c.

  4. Updated Newborn blood spot screening standards for data collected from 1 April 2021.

  5. Updated standards S07a, S07b and S07c.

  6. Added revised standards for data collected from 1 April 2020 onwards.

  7. Newborn blood spot screening standards updated and reformatted.

  8. Standards updated January 2017 for implementation from April 2017

  9. First published.

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