For Health Professionals
Guidelines, quality standards, monitoring reports and programme updates to support your practice as health professionals providing screening services in New Zealand.
You can also access consumer information intended to support your conversations with women and their partners/family/whanau, and on-line continuing education about screening, all the antenatal and newborn screening programmes and the quality improvement initiative. On-line education modules are approved for on-going/continuing education points by the Midwifery Council of New Zealand and the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners.
In this section
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What you need to know about screening at different alert levels
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The NSU has implemented a process of development of quality improvements to antenatal screening for Down syndrome and other conditions.
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BreastScreen Aotearoa was established nationally in December 1998 to provide free mammograms and follow-up for asymptomatic women.
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The National Bowel Screening Programme is available to eligible New Zealanders, aged 60 to 74. It aims to save lives by detecting bowel cancer at an early stage, when it can often be more successfully treated.
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The National Cervical Screening Programme (NCSP) is delivered by a large number of providers across the screening pathway, from health promotion to cervical screening and treatment services.
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The Newborn Metabolic Screening Programme started in New Zealand in 1969. New Zealand was one of the first countries in the world to have a national metabolic screening programme.
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As a response to the success of newborn hearing screening programmes in other countries, the New Zealand Government announced in 2006 that it would fund a universal newborn hearing screening programme for all New Zealand children.
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In this section, you can find resources, download information request forms and access links to many other recommended websites.
Page last updated: 15 July 2021