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Population screening programmes can cause harms as well as benefits, which need to be weighed up by the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC).
Asylum policy guidance for screening asylum seekers and routing them to regional asylum teams.
Standards and guidance for healthcare professionals, managers and commissioners working in the NHS cervical screening programme.
Screening decisions made by the Secretary of State on overhead electricity line applications.
Population screening programmes: Population screening: evidence and guidance
Screening Decisions
Guidance on the Animal and Plant Health Agency laboratory testing services and prices for animal disease diagnosis.
Use these log sheets to record and review equipment use in local Newborn Hearing Screening Programmes (NHSP).
These checks and audits act as failsafe processes to minimise risks of anything going wrong in the NHS screening programme pathways.
The pathway for each screening programme illustrates how the screening processes work, from contacting a person for screening onward.
This data dictionary explains the data collected for newborn blood spot and sickle cell and thalassaemia screening programmes.
When tests to detect COVID-19 are commonly used (use cases) and what to consider when deciding which type of test to employ.
Information for healthcare professionals providing NHS fetal anomaly screening programme (FASP) screening, to ensure services meet the national standards for England.
Information on the programme, including the screening tests, commissioning, quality assurance, education and training.
Screening Directions
A contents page for NHS England population screening programmes including details such as programme standards, education and training and quality assurance
Modified materials for the 2023 phonics screening check.
These publications explain NHS newborn screening programme tests, possible results and follow-up tests.
Information to support laboratories involved with the NHS antenatal and newborn (ANNB) screening programmes with a laboratory component.
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