The first of the universal hearing screening pilot sites started in Nottingham Health Authority and Redbridge and Waltham Forest Health Authority last month. Another 18 sites will begin in the next few months.
It is hoped that children tested in the pilot projects will benefit from having any hearing impairments identified quickly and accurately. Evidence shows that early intervention improves children's learning ability for the rest of their lives.
Meanwhile, screening for the inherited disease cystic fibrosis in all newborn babies is currently in the planning stage and will be introduced next year as part of Government initiatives to modernise neonatal and antenatal testing, introduce national screening standards and make services available to all new mothers and pregnant women.
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