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Information for parents of babies who carry the sickle cell gene.
This information is for parents whose baby may have Patau’s syndrome. It can help them talk through the next stages of their care with health professionals.
Information for pregnant women to understand what it means to be a haemoglobin E carrier.
How to use the newborn blood spot screening failsafe solution (NBSFS), the national IT system, to minimise risk to babies.
These documents describe the newborn hearing screening programme (NHSP) pathways.
Information on the commissioning and testing of full field digital mammography systems.
Requirements for the quality assurance of laboratories providing antenatal and newborn screening services by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS).
Screening standards for the NHS abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening programme.
Healthcare professionals can use this leaflet to answer parents' common questions on hearing loss in babies: available in Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu.
Sickle cell and thalassaemia high/low prevalence laboratory return 2025 to 2026
This document describes the infectious diseases in pregnancy screening (IDPS) pathway.
These guidelines on the prevention of secondary cases have been developed following a review of the epidemiology of invasive Hib disease.
This document explains the NHS breast screening programme for women defined as being at high risk of breast cancer.
Peer review framework to support NIPE screening practitioners to record and maintain practical skills required to perform the NIPE newborn screening examination
A collection of resources for our NHS Bowel Cancer Screening for patients with Lynch Syndrome.
Guidance for bowel cancer screening providers on using national accessible format letter content to support informed choice.
Procedures to ensure the interval between breast screening and invitation for the next screen is 36 months for all eligible women.
Information for pregnant women to understand what it means to be a haemoglobin D carrier.
Newborn blood spot (NBS) screening guidance for babies under a year of age with no available screening results.
Annual reports on data collected by the NHS Newborn Blood Spot (NBS) Screening Programme.
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