Northgate to provide newborn hearing screening service in Ireland

Published by Danny Calogero for Fellows Associates in Health and also in Central Government

Northgate Public Services in association with the English Newborn Hearing Screening Programme Centre (NHSP) announces that it has been awarded a framework contract by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to provide a newborn hearing screening service in Ireland.

The two year deal, which comes with the possibility of a further extension for a year, builds on Northgate’s and the NHSP’s long track record in both infant and adult screening in the UK.

The service which has initially been commissioned in Cork University Maternity Hospital will be rolled out across the whole of HSE South by early 2012. Once completed, Northgate will be screening over 17,000 babies per year at hospitals in Cork, Wexford, Waterford, Tiree, Kilkenny and Tipperary.

Dave Meaden, Chief Executive, Northgate Public Services, said today: “We are delighted to have been selected by HSE as their partner on this important programme. We all want to give our children the best possible chance in life and infant screening programmes help to achieve this. This Newborn Hearing Screening Programme is one of a number on national initiatives to improve hearing services for children. It will make a real difference to Irish families and their children.”

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