Newborn blood spot screening: results to parents letter templates
Child health information services (CHIS) should use these letter templates to notify parents of their baby's blood spot screening results in a consistent way.
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An evaluation is taking place into screening for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) in the NHS. The evaluation will cover around two-thirds of the newborn population in England.
There are 2 versions of each letter template depending on whether or not a baby was offered SCID screening alongside the 9 other newborn blood spot conditions.
See the PHE Screening blog for .
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Updates to this page
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Updated information about the SCID screening evaluation.
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Updated the letter templates for the SCID screening evaluation.
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Additional template letter added for normal result for preterm repeat CHT screen.
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New letter templates added.
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First published.