Abortion

(asked on 5th June 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many abortions were performed for foetal abnormality in each of the last five years which were reported to a foetal abnormality register but were not notified through the submission of an HSA4 abortion notification form to the Chief Medical Officer.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 12th June 2014

Results from a matching exercise undertaken on the 2011 and 2012 data between the abortion notification forms and NDSCR records were published on 23 May 2014 entitled Matching Department of Health abortion notifications and data from the National Down's Syndrome Cytogenetic Register and recommendations for improving notification compliance. No matching exercise was undertaken for the years 2008, 2009 and 2010. A copy of the report has been placed in the Library. It is also available at:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/under-reporting-of-abortions-for-fetal-abnormalities

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