Guidance

Standards for sickle cell and thalassaemia screening

This document sets out the quality standards for the sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) antenatal and newborn screening programme

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This publication explains the programme standards for monitoring the SCT antenatal and newborn screening programme.

The generic newborn blood spot screening standards also apply.

Updates to this page

Published 1 November 2011
Last updated 8 February 2018 + show all updates
  1. Addition of links to inheritance risk table from Standard 5 definitions

  2. Publication of revised programme standards that will apply from 1 April 2017 and archiving of previous version.

  3. First published.

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