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Guidance

Screening tests for you and your baby: babies in special care units

Information about newborn screening tests for parents of babies in special care units.

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NHS England
Published
1 August 2015
Last updated
1125 AugustSeptember 2025 — See all updates

Applies to England

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Screening tests for you and your baby: babies in special care units

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This information explains some important differences in the way that the newborn screening tests are carried out for babies in special care baby units, neonatal intensive care units or paediatric intensive care units.

It is also available in these 12 language translations: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, French, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Somali and Urdu.

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Published 1 August 2015
Last updated 1125 AugustSeptember 2025 + show all updates

  2. Updated with changes to wording and some new content throughout, especially sections 1, 2.4, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4.

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Update history

2026-09-29 09:28
Added brief information on in-service evaluations (ISEs) in section 2.1, and minor updates to section 2.3.

2025-09-25 09:18
Added hereditary tyrosinaemia type 1 (HT1) to the list of inherited metabolic diseases screened for under blood spot.

2025-08-11 15:11
Updated with changes to wording and some new content throughout, especially sections 1, 2.4, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4.

2025-06-24 14:25
Changed content type to guidance.

2025-04-04 10:38
Changed lead organisation to NHS England. Removed reference to screening helpdesk. Removed references to PHE from HTML versions.