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 2013Last updated 8 October 2024 + show all updates
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Added clarification that publication was previously published by Public Health England.
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Two new codes added to the existing list, plus some additional comments. Codes now presented in HTML format, with the old PDF removed.
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First published.