Heart Diseases: Children

(asked on 1st September 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the feasibility of implementing swab tests for the detection of Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies in children with risk factors for those diseases.


Answered by
Ashley Dalton Portrait
Ashley Dalton
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 11th September 2025

No assessment has been made as this test is in development, backed by the British Heart Foundation. An early study has been undertaken, but further research is needed.

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