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STFYAYB provides information about the screening tests offered during and after pregnancy.
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These 8 easy read guides explain the screening tests offered during and after pregnancy for people with learning disabilities.
Guidance for local NHS screening services on how to order printed population screening leaflets.
The processes for managing safety incidents in the NHS screening programmes.
Information for pregnant women who are offered a chorionic villus sampling (CVS) or amniocentesis diagnostic test.
Policy and standards for antenatal laboratories working with the NHS sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) screening programme.
Guidance for healthcare professionals covering the pathway for sickle cell and thalassaemia screening.
Information on the programme, including the screening tests, commissioning, quality assurance, education and training.
Information for pregnant women to understand what it means to be a beta thalassaemia carrier.
Resources to support screening professionals in their initial training and continuing professional development (CPD).
Leaflet for expectant fathers explaining antenatal screening for sickle cell and thalassaemia.
Information for parents of babies who carry the sickle cell gene.
Information for pregnant women to understand what it means to be a sickle cell carrier.
How to support patients in accessing population screening programmes and obtaining screening results.
Information for parents of babies who carry a gene for unusual haemoglobin.
Requirements for the quality assurance of laboratories providing antenatal and newborn screening services by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS).
Screening standards for the sickle cell and thalassaemia (SCT) antenatal and newborn screening programme.
Role and remit of NHS population screening programmes’ Research, Innovation and Development Advisory Committee
These leaflets, in English, French, Bengali and Urdu, can help healthcare professionals speak with people about sickle cell disease.
Guidance to support the health system to reduce inequalities in screening.
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