Babies: Screening
(asked on 14th July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for which diseases the NHS screens by using the neonatal heel prick test for newborn babies.
This question was answered on 21st July 2014
Current screening for newborn blood spot programme includes: Phenylketonuria, Congenital Hypothyroidism, Cystic Fibrosis, Medium-Chain Acyl CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency and Sickle Cell Disease.
Expanded screening due to commence nationally January 2015 will include: Maple Syrup Urine Disease, Homocystinuria, Isovaleric acidaemia and Glutaric Aciduria Type 1.