You can register to receive updates direct to your inbox, so there’s no need to keep checking for new blogs. The PHE Screening blog provides up to date news from all NHS screening programmes. Please keep an eye out for our future blog articles under the SCID tag and under the newborn blood spot category. We will work closely with colleagues in the NHS neonatal BCG programme to make sure the changes to the programme are in place when the SCID evaluation begins. on receipt of a screen negative SCID result (or ‘SCID not offered’ result if not within an area involved in the evaluation)įollowing discussions with NHS England and Improvement, stakeholders and colleagues within PHE, we are very pleased to confirm that the SCID evaluation and the necessary changes to the NHS neonatal BCG immunisation programme are scheduled to start from September 2021.These changes will mean babies eligible for BCG will only be given the vaccine: For those babies who are being screened for SCID, it is important that the SCID screening result is available before BCG is offered. This is because treatment for SCID is more complicated if a baby has had the BCG vaccine. In our previous blog article we mentioned that the SCID evaluation is reliant on changes to the BCG vaccination programme. The vaccine is given only when someone has an increased risk of coming into contact with TB. Some parents are offered the NHS neonatal BCG tuberculosis (TB) vaccine for their baby. new procurement processes, including identifying the equipment needed.
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