Guidance and regulation

STFYAYB provides information about the screening tests offered during and after pregnancy.

• From: NHS England and 1 others
• Updated: 4 August 2022

• Introduction and summary animation

  This short animation shows the screening tests offered during pregnancy…

• Infectious diseases

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• Sickle cell and thalassaemia

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• Down’s syndrome, Edwards’ syndrome and Patau’s syndrome

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• 11 physical conditions (20-week scan)

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• Diabetic eye screening

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• Eyes, heart, hips and testes (physical examination)

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• Hearing loss

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• Blood spot

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Resources to support screening professionals in their initial training and continuing professional development (CPD).

• From: NHS England
• Updated: 11 July 2023

Guidance for local NHS screening services on how to order and access printed and digital population screening leaflets.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 27 August 2020

These 8 easy read guides explain the screening tests offered during and after pregnancy for people with learning disabilities.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 20 July 2021

The processes for managing safety incidents in the NHS screening programmes.

• From: NHS England
• Updated: 27 March 2024

Information on the programme, including the screening tests, commissioning, quality assurance, education and training.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 17 August 2023

Policy and standards for antenatal laboratories working with the NHS sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) screening programme.

• From: NHS England
• Updated: 5 September 2022

Guidance for healthcare professionals covering the pathway for sickle cell and thalassaemia screening.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 6 July 2018

Information for pregnant women who are offered a chorionic villus sampling (CVS) or amniocentesis diagnostic test.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 31 October 2021

Information for pregnant women to understand what it means to be a sickle cell carrier.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 2 October 2020

Information for pregnant women to understand what it means to be a beta thalassaemia carrier.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 2 October 2020

Leaflet for expectant fathers explaining antenatal screening for sickle cell and thalassaemia.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 2 December 2021

How to support patients in accessing population screening programmes and obtaining screening results.

• From: NHS England
• Updated: 25 January 2024

Screening standards for the sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) antenatal and newborn screening programme.

• From: NHS England
• Updated: 24 July 2023

An overview of the sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) screening end-to-end pathway.

• From: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
• Updated: 21 June 2021

Guidance to support the health system to reduce inequalities in screening.

• From: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
• Updated: 22 October 2020

Information for parents of babies who carry a gene for unusual haemoglobin.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 2 December 2021

This document sets out for the programme specific operating model (PSOM) for quality assurance of the NHS antenatal and newborn (ANNB) screening programmes.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 24 August 2021

This document describes the sickle cell and thalassamia (SCT) screening pathways.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 29 March 2021

Instructions on how to submit key performance indicator (KPI) data for the antenatal and newborn blood spot (NBS) screening programmes.

• From: NHS England
• Updated: 17 August 2020