Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Babies
Commons · Question 15067 · Tabled 19 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 25 Nov 2024
Question
Asked by Freddie van Mierlo
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of testing newborn babies for spinal muscular atrophy.
Answer
Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 25 Nov 2024
Work is already underway to assess the potential merits of testing newborn babies for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).This is following the UK National Screening Committee’s two-fold recommendation in 2023, to simultaneously develop a new cost-effectiveness...