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The annual flu letter describes the national flu immunisation programme and outlines which groups are eligible for flu vaccination.
These guidelines give commissioners, providers and healthcare professionals in cancer screening information on consent to screening and procedures.
Requirements for the quality assurance of laboratories providing antenatal and newborn screening services by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS).
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.
Changes to the routine childhood vaccination schedule from 1 July 2025, 1 January 2026 and changes to the selective hepatitis B vaccination programme from 1 July 2025
Information about what the tariffs cover, how to use the tariffs and in what circumstances the national tariffs may be varied.
Information on the programme, including the screening tests, commissioning, quality assurance, education and training.
The NHS breast surveillance protocols for women at very high risk of developing breast cancer.
Information on the programme, including commissioning, quality assurance, education and training.
Information for pregnant women to understand what it means to be a beta thalassaemia carrier.
Guidance setting out the principles and processes for addressing NHS continuing healthcare previously unassessed periods of care requests.
This guidance explains what is required of health professionals carrying out newborn blood spot (NBS) screening.
Guidance for laboratories handling samples for the NHS infectious diseases in pregnancy screening (IDPS) programme.
This leaflet provides information on having a colonoscopy if further tests are needed after using the NHS bowel cancer screening test kit.
Resources to support screening professionals in their initial training and continuing professional development (CPD).
This is to help commissioners, sample takers and laboratories reduce errors associated with cervical screening sample requests.
Training and continuing professional development (CPD) for people working in the NHS cervical screening programme (CSP) in England.
Information on purchasing, installing, maintaining and the quality assurance of breast ultrasound scanners for the NHS breast screening programme.
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