Guidance

Newborn hearing screening programme: standards

Screening standards for the NHS newborn hearing screening programme (NHSP).

From:
NHS England
Published
1 July 2010
Last updated
9 October 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Newborn hearing screening: supporting information

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Newborn hearing screening programme standards: valid for data collected from 1 April 2022

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Newborn hearing screening programme standards: valid for data collected from 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2022

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Details

These documents present the national screening standards for the NHS newborn hearing screening programme (NHSP).

The most recent standards are applicable to data collected from 1 April 2022. They replace previous versions.

See Population screening: our approach to screening standards for the consistent approach taken to screening standards across all 11 NHS screening programmes.

Updates to this page

Published 1 July 2010
Last updated 9 October 2024 + show all updates

  1. Updated July 2024 to remove all reference to community model thresholds.

  2. Updated the supporting information document: see the chapter titled 'Summary of changes from previous version of standard' for details. Added 'Newborn hearing screening programme standards valid for data collected from 1 April 2022' and deleted the outdated 'NHS newborn hearing screening programme standards 2016 to 2017'.

  3. Removal of pathway and themes diagram.

  4. Added glossary links to standard 1.

  5. Published new NHSP standards being implemented from 1 April 2018.

  6. Added NHS newborn hearing screening programme standards 2016 to 2017.

  7. First published.

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