Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure each NHS Trust is equipped with the (a) expertise and (b) resources needed to treat haemochromotosis.

Services for the care and treatment of patients with hemochromatosis are commissioned by clinical commissioning groups which determine the National Health Service trust level element of expertise and resources to treat this condition.

Genetic testing services or other specialised services may however be involved in the diagnosis of this condition. This would be as a result of a specific referral for genetic testing. The Genomic Medicine Service is supported by the National Genomic Test Directory which specifies the genomic tests that are commissioned by the NHS in England. Genetic haemochromatosis is included in the Test Directory.