Haemochromatosis: Screening
(asked on 24th February 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to incorporate blood tests for serum ferritin and transferrin saturation into the NHS Health Check, as a cost-effective means of identifying people at risk of iron overload from genetic haemochromatosis earlier in life.
This question was answered on 9th March 2021
Public Health England has no current plans to do so.