The Screening team at Blackpool Teaching Hospital are responsible for the management and delivery of the 6 Antenatal and Newborn screening programmes within the Trust.
These include:
- Sickle cell and Thalassemia screening in pregnancy
- Infectious Diseases screening in pregnancy
- Fetal Anomaly Screening
- Newborn Examination screening
- Newborn Bloodspot screening
- Newborn Hearing Screening
The team is made up of an Antenatal and Newborn Screening Lead, a Screening Midwife and a Failsafe Officer.
You will be offered a range of screening tests during pregnancy and after your baby is born. Your community midwife will discuss these with you and will refer you for additional care and support from the screening team if needed.
Watch a video about screening tests here.
To watch this video with subtitles in English, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, French, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian Somali or Urdu click here. A British Sign Language version is also available.
You can also access the Screening Tests for you and your baby leaflet via the Badgernet app when you have been given access to this via your midwife and by visiting Screening tests for you and your baby (STFYAYB) - GOV.UK
This information is available in 12 other languages:
We offer BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) vaccination to protect your baby against tuberculosis (TB). If your baby is eligible, you will be referred for this following your baby’s birth and arrangements will then be made for your baby to attend a clinic for this following discharge from hospital. For more information about BCG vaccination please visit TB, BCG and your baby - GOV.UK.
Contact the Antenatal and Newborn Screening team:
The service available from: 8.30am-4.30pm, Monday-Friday.
Telephone: 01253 953639.
