Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT)
The Clinical Pathology department at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has run a successful antenatal screening service for Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Sherwood Forest for over twenty-five years.
The laboratory is fully UKAS accredited (Number 8848) and is compliant with the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme Service Specification No. 17 and the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme Handbook. The laboratory participates in external quality assurance and DQASS quality schemes.
The laboratory has a dedicated team of experienced clinical scientists who are fully trained and competency assessed. Laboratory representatives attend all national Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme and Down’s Quality Assurance Support Service (DQASS)
training events.
The laboratory has utilised PerkinElmer equipment for over twenty years and was one of the first to adopt the Vanadis technology for NIPT screening.