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Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Babies

Commons · Question 48034 · Tabled 24 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 29 Apr 2025

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Asked by Freddie van Mierlo

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information the UK National Screening Committee has provided on the (a) format, (b) scale and (c) duration of the upcoming in-service evaluation of newborn screening for Spinal Muscular Atroph

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Answered by Ashley Dalton, 29 Apr 2025

The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) is working with the spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) partnership board to scope out the potential shape of the in-service evaluation into SMA. The partnership board includes clinicians, academics, patient represen...