Early intervention with Newborn Screening

Our online information and performance management system helps clinicians to act sooner, enabling better follow-up services to newborn babies identified with moderate, severe and profound deafness.

One to two babies in every 1,000 are born with a hearing impairment in one or both ears, most into families with no history of hearing loss.

The NHS newborn hearing screening programme aims to identify this through a simple test completed shortly after birth. It gives affected children a better chance of developing speech and language skills and helps them make the most social and emotional interaction.

The programme has screened more than 10 million babies, bringing down the time it takes to identify hearing loss from three years to just three months.

AAA Screening

Our national IT platform is used by more than 40 local screening programmes across the country.

An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a swelling of the main blood vessel leading away from the heart. It often causes no symptoms but if not detected can be life-threatening. Identifying the condition early saves lives, so in 2009 the NHS began to screen men from their 65th year.

Our software has since helped screen over 300,000 men each year.