The West Midlands Regional Laboratory
for Newborn Screening in based in the Department of Clinical
Chemistry at Birmingham Children's Hospital. At 5-8 days of age
all babies in the West Midlands are visited by a midwife who
collects a small amount of blood from a heel prick and makes
blood spots on a special card. These are sent to our laboratory
for testing. We test them for a range of biochemical
diseases that babies can be born with where it is very important to treat early to prevent
serious and irreversible disease.
Contact Details
Services
A
CPA Accredited Laboratory
Paul Griffiths
Head of Department
Director of Newborn Screening
Tel: 0121 333 9923
Secretary: 0121 333 9916 paul.griffiths@bch.nhs.uk
Ms Kate Hall
Head of Newborn
Screening
Tel: 0121 333 9903
Secretary: 0121 333 9917 kate.hall@bch.nhs.uk
