Pregnancy and newborn screening

National Services Division has an ongoing role in the national multidisciplinary groups which monitor and evaluate the pregnancy and newborn screening programmes, and in partnership with NHS Health Scotland they also produce patient information to support the programmes. Additionally NSD commission the laboratory service for the newborn bloodspot testing programme.

NHS Quality Improvement Scotland, in collaboration with the services and NSD, have developed quality standards relating to the pregnancy and newborn screening programmes; these are available for download from the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland website.

In Scotland screening is routinely offered for the following conditions:

Pregnancy:

Down’s Syndrome and Neural Tube defects
Communicable diseases

Newborn:

Newborn Hearing Screening
Phenylketonuria, Congenital Hypothyroidism and Cystic Fibrosis

NSD work in partnership with NHS Health Scotland to produce information on tests available during pregnancy and for newborn babies. This information is available from the Health Scotland website.

National Services Division contacts:

To contact members of NSD staff, please visit our staff contacts page.

Lyn Hutchison, Senior Commissioning and Screening Programme Manager, Pregnancy Screening and Newborn Hearing Screening

Catriona Johnson, Senior Commissioning and Screening Programme Manager, Newborn Bloodspot Screening