PHE have published the 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 infectious diseases in pregnancy screening (IDPS) programme standards report. This year is special because it is the first in which IDPS standards have been collected. The IDPS programme offers and recommends pregnant women in England screening for:
•HIV
•hepatitis B
•syphilis
“The report shows that between 1 April 2016 and 31 March 2017 in England:
•screening coverage for all 3 infections was over 99%
•more than 98% of results were reported to maternity services within 8 working days of samples being received by the laboratory
The proportion of pregnant women with hepatitis B who attended specialist assessment within 6 weeks of the positive result was 80.3% in England, which meets the acceptable threshold of 70%.”
Read the PHE blog entry about the stats here
or read the report here
Maternity & Obstetrics 