Newborn Screening helps to diagnose babies with rare metabolic disorders in the first few days of life. These conditions can cause serious illness, which can result in death or serious disabilities. Screening offers a window of opportunity to keep these children well, and with support they can live normal lives. This film was made as […]
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The Expanded Newborn Screening Project Website
Newborn babies in the UK are currently screened for five disorders at birth. The Expanded Newborn Screening project is working with clinicians, allied health professionals, clinical scientists, health economists and other academics to evaluate whether it would be appropriate to screen for an additional five rare metabolic disorders. To evaluate this we have screened 430,000 […]
Living with a rare disorder and screening – an introduction
Newborn Screening helps to diagnose babies with rare metabolic disorders in the first few days of life. These conditions can cause serious illness, which can result in death or serious disabilities. Screening offers a window of opportunity to keep these children well, and with support they can live normal lives. This film was made as […]
Expanding Newborn Screening
Newborn bloodspot screening is used to identify babies who have rare but serious conditions. We are piloting expanding newborn screening to include a further five rare conditions. This website provides information for parents and professionals on the newborn screening process, the rare conditions which are being tested, and the research study. Please click here to […]
