Down's Syndrome: Screening
(asked on 20th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will issue a response to Early Day Motion 44, on Down's syndrome, don't screen us out campaign, tabled on 19 May 2016.
This question was answered on 27th October 2016
The United Kingdom National Screening Committee (UKNSC) has recommended that Non Invasive Prenatal Testing for Down’s, Patau’s and Edwards’ syndromes should be introduced as an additional test into the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme as part of an evaluation. Ministers are currently considering this recommendation from the UK NSC.