Guidance

Status codes for NHS newborn blood spot (NBS) screening programme

Codes for screening laboratories and child health records departments to record outcomes of NBS screening.

Applies to England

Documents

Details

The codes and sub codes for all conditions screened for by the NBS screening programme to record the screening test outcomes.

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

Updates to this page

Published 1 April 2013
Last updated 8 October 2024 + show all updates
  1. Added clarification that publication was previously published by Public Health England.

  2. Two new codes added to the existing list, plus some additional comments. Codes now presented in HTML format, with the old PDF removed.

  3. First published.

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