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. 2010 Jun 30;63(7):626–629. doi: 10.1136/jcp.2010.077560

Table 1.

Rates of significant conditions* by strategic health authorities: April 2005 to March 2007

Results for newborns: April 2005 to March 2007 Rate per 1000 babies screened No. No. of babies screened
County Durham and Tees Valley <5 23228
Don't know <5 29641
Hampshire and Isle of Wight <5 23134
North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire <5 32781
South West Peninsula <5 31073
Surrey and Sussex <5 58190
Trent <5 58814
Dorset and Somerset 0 0 15931
Cumbria and Lancashire 0.12 5 42632
Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire 0.12 5 41945
Cheshire and Merseyside 0.14 8 56655
Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire 0.14 5 35355
Shropshire and Staffordshire 0.15 5 33400
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear 0.19 5 26093
Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire 0.23 10 43516
Thames Valley 0.24 6 24701
Kent and Medway 0.25 10 39764
South Yorkshire 0.26 8 30881
West Yorkshire 0.32 18 55954
Greater Manchester 0.38 27 70211
Essex 0.39 15 38610
Birmingham and the Black Country 0.43 28 65150
Bedford and Hertfordshire 0.44 19 43239
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland 0.53 20 38062
London North West 0.99 55 55514
London South West 1.25 49 39044
London North Central 1.41 54 38231
London North East 2.18 120 55050
London South East 3.05 158 51815
England 0.54 651 1198614

Note that Portsmouth provided data from April 2006 and Oxford from July 2006.

*

Significant conditions comprise the following results: FS, FSC, FS other and FE (F, foetal haemoglobin; S, S haemoglobin; C, C haemoglobin; E, E haemoglobin).

Pre July 2006.

Sample too small.