Newborn Screening

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Newborn Blood Spot Screening tests drops of blood collected from a baby’s heel to help detect treatable conditions.

The Newborn Screening and Willink laboratories together are responsible for blood spot screening of all newborns within Greater Manchester, Lancashire and South Cumbria.

The Newborn Screening Laboratory is part of the Clinical Biochemistry Directorate within the Laboratory Medicine Care Division and performs all of the first line analytical tests for Congenital Hypothyroidism, Cystic Fibrosis and Sickle Cell. The laboratory also provides a specialist endocrinology service.

Key information

User guide

  1. Introduction
  2. Repertoire
  3. Location
  4. Opening hours and contact details
  5. Key personnel
  6. Willink Biochemical Genetics Laboratory
  7. Child Health Departments
  8. Conditions screened
  9. Early metabolic screening (family history)
  10. Newborn Blood Spot Failsafe Solution
  11. Newborn Screening samples
  12. Quality assurance
  13. Reporting of screening results
  14. Reports
  15. Retrieval of stored samples for cytomegalovirus (CMV) testing
  16. Tests and technology
  17. User feedback, compliments and complaints