This website is owned and maintained by the National Screening Unit (NSU), part of Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand.
As part of Te Whatu Ora, the National Screening Unit provides health screening programmes across New Zealand.
The National Screening Unit is responsible for the safety, effectiveness and quality of the following screening programmes:
- BreastScreen Aotearoa – screens women for breast cancer
- National Cervical Screening Programme – screens women for abnormal changes to cells on the cervix
- National Bowel Screening Programme – screens men and women aged 60 to 74 for bowel cancer
- Newborn Metabolic Screening Programme – screens newborn babies for certain metabolic disorders
- Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Programme – screens newborn babies for hearing loss
The National Screening Unit is also responsible for introducing the quality improvement measures for antenatal screening for Down syndrome and other conditions.
Find out more on the National Screening Unit website.