Down's Syndrome: Screening
(asked on 1st March 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of non-invasive prenatal testing on levels of abortions of babies with Down's syndrome.
This question was answered on 9th March 2021
The national evaluative roll out for non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) as a contingent screening test as part of the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme is yet to be implemented. Therefore, no recent assessment has been made of the effect of NIPT on levels of abortions of babies with Down’s syndrome.