Screening Matters
The National Screening Unit newsletter
In this issue:
Gathering good quality ethnicity data
The National Screening Unit (NSU) relies on high-quality ethnicity information collected at the time a baby is registered on the National Health Index (NHI).
It is important to use the standard ethnicity question and not to assume a baby’s ethnicity.
The Ministry of Health’s Ethnicity Data Protocols for the Health and Disability Sector outline the standards for collecting, recording and outputting ethnicity data.
In 2013, the Ministry published the Primary Care Ethnicity Data Audit Toolkit, a useful tool for those in primary care, particularly cervical screening, to assess the quality of ethnicity data and the systems that support it.
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