Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing the Adams Bend test in schools.

In 2015, the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) considered the Adams Bend test and concluded it has a high false positive rate and a low positive predictive value for identifying cases that are likely to progress and require treatment, therefore the use of this screening test would lead to unnecessary and potentially harmful exposure to X-rays. The UK NSC reconsidered the evidence in 2021 and does not currently recommend the introduction of a screening programme for scoliosis using the Adams Bend test.