Official Statistics
Antenatal screening standards: data report 2019 to 2020
Data report for fetal anomaly screening, infectious diseases in pregnancy screening and sickle cell and thalassaemia screening 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020.
Applies to England
Documents
Details
This publication covers the 3 NHS population antenatal screening programmes. These are the:
- NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP)
- NHS Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy Screening (IDPS) Programme
- NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia (SCT) Screening Programme
Antenatal screening covers 17 different conditions and is offered to approximately 700,000 pregnant women in England every year.
Main facts
The report shows that:
- coverage for antenatal SCT screening has steadily increased since 2014 to 2015 and is now at 99.7%
- coverage has remained stable since 2016 to 2017 and is now at 99.8% for HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis screening in 2019 to 2020
- in addition to antenatal screening for sickle cell and thalassaemia, 620,000 newborn babies were screened for sickle cell disease
- as part of fetal anomaly screening, 98.1% of women with higher chance results were offered an appointment within 3 working days
- of those babies requiring hepatitis B vaccination, 98.5% received their first dose within 24 hours
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