In association with the English Newborn Hearing Screening Programme Centre (NHSP), Northgate Public Services has announced 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 contract builds on Northgate’s and the NHSP’s existing track record in infant and adult screening in the UK. The service has initially been commissioned in Cork University Maternity Hospital, and should be rolled out across the whole of HSE South by early 2012. When completed, Northgate will be screening over 17,000 babies per year at hospitals in Cork, Wexford, Waterford, Tiree, Kilkenny and Tipperary.
