Mission Statement

The NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme Vision:

"Improving outcomes for every child through a high quality hearing screening programme, safe and effective assessments and family centred early intervention".

To ensure equality of access to newborn hearing screening and in doing so reduce health inequalities
To offer high quality newborn hearing screening to the parents of 99% of babies born in England
To offer all babies who record 'no clear response' to the initial screening, further safe and effective audiological assessment
To identify all children born with moderate to profound permanent bilateral deafness within 4-5 weeks of birth
To improve outcomes for every child identified with moderate to profound permanent deafness through effective rehabilitation
To promote and develop family friendly integrated services which support effective early intervention for deaf children
To empower parents to make informed choices for their child throughout the entire newborn hearing care pathway
To be recognised as the world's leading newborn hearing screening programme, sharing the latest research and best practice guidance

The UK National Screening Committee and NHS Screening Programmes are part of Public Health England