Bulletins

We send periodic bulletins to submitters to keep them updated on screening and practices. If you are a health care provider and would like to subscribe to our e-mail distribution list or are looking to access older bulletin archives, please complete our contact form.

2026

February:

  • 2026-1: Newborn Screening Ontario's 20th anniversary

March:

  • 2026-2: A recent issue regarding the faxing of newborn screening results reports and a small update to the report, the upcoming Easter long weekend, an upcoming submitter webinar, and NSO pamphlets.

January:

  • 2025-1: An update regarding the presentation of newborn screening reports in Ontario's Laboratory Information System (OLIS). 

February:

April:

  • 2025-3:  Easter weekend shipping information, new NSO pamphlets, and biliary atresia screening reminders.
  • 2025-4: Notice: disruption in transmission of results from NSO to OLIS. 

June:

  • 2025-5: Upcoming holiday, new NSO pamphlets, submitter education, newborn screening card reminders, and a recent disruption in transmission of results from NSO to OLIS.

August:

  • 2025-6: Update regarding screening for X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (XALD), and upcoming changes to the newborn screening report.

September:

  • 2025-7: Notice regarding a potential disruption in the timely transmission of results from NSO to the Ontario Laboratories Information System (OLIS) and the Better Outcomes Registry Network (BORN).

October:

  • 2025-8: An update regarding the recent disruption in timely transmission of newborn screening results from NSO to OLIS and BORN.
  • 2025-9: Information on an upcoming submitter webinar, dried blood spot card reminders, and a change to repeat requests for unsatisfactory samples
  • Point of Care Newsletter: Fall 2025

November:

  • 2025-10: Information regarding our recent webinar and reminders for ordering NSO pamphlets and ISCCs

December:

  • 2025-11: Information regarding newborn screening sample collection and shipping over the holiday period

February:

  • 2024-1: NSO's new website and Submitter Hub.

March:

  • 2024-2: Easter weekend shipping information and biliary atresia updates.

May:

  • 2024-3: Discussing newborn screening with families and disclosing positive results, and new resources to guide these conversations

August:

September:

  • 2024-4: Safe practices for shipping newborn screening dried blood spot (DBS) samples, how to document TPN holds on the DBS card, hearing loss risk factor screening, ordering Infant Stool Colour Cards and a new BA teaching tool.
  • 2024-5: Information about newborn screening and shipping over two upcoming holiday weekends, and an update on the newborn screening card.
  • 2024-6: Notice regarding a delay in faxing of newborn screening reports.

November:

  • 2024-7: An update regarding the delay in faxing newborn screening reports.

December:

  • 2024-8: Information regarding newborn screening and shipping over the upcoming holiday period. 

January:

  • 2023-1: Screening for biliary atresia

February:

  • 2023-2: Additional information about screening for biliary atresia

April:

  • 2023-3: Upcoming holiday weekend, NSO workshop series, and faxing results

May:

  • 2023-4: Upcoming information session about accessing newborn screening results in OLIS via a clinical viewer

June:

  • 2023-5: New educational resources, out of country results requests, and ordering dried blood spot and stool colour cards. 
  • 2023-6: Upcoming holiday weekend and new video regarding transfusions and dried blood spot collection.

September:

  • 2023-7: Shipping reminders for two upcoming holiday weekends

November:

  • 2023-8: Update on biliary atresia screening, ordering Infant Stool Colour Cards, and an upcoming webinar.

December:

  • 2023-9: Information on screening and shipping over the holiday period, upcoming changes regarding screen positive reports, and news about our website and resources. 

April:

  • 2022-1: Long weekend shipping reminders, general updates about ordering supplies and card completion

August:

  • 2022-2: Packed red blood cell transfusions and upcoming changes to the newborn screening report.

September:

  • 2022-3: Screening for Guanidinoacetate Methyltransferase (GAMT) Deficiency 
  • 2022-4: Screening for GAMT deficiency and biliary atresia

December:

  • 2022-5: Newborn screening over the holidays

February:

  • 2021-1: Newborn screening results in OLIS

March:

  • 2021-2: Shipping reminder for the long weekend 

June:

  • 2021-3: Changes to the newborn screening cards
  • 2021-4: Holiday shipping reminders, clarification about recent changes to the newborn screening card, updating our distribution list

September:

  • 2021-5: Purolator closure on September 30, 2021

October:

  • 2021-6: Promoting the use of OLIS to access newborn screening results
  • 2021-7: Accessing OLIS

November:

  • 2021-8: OLIS Instructional Tools and FAQs

December:

  • 2021-9: Newborn screening over the holidays

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