Babies: Screening
Commons · Question 58197 · Tabled 9 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 17 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Bob Blackman
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many babies were born with conditions not picked up during screening tests in each of the last ten years for which data is available.
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 17 Jun 2025
The information requested is not held centrally. There is no specific field in the Maternity Services Dataset (MSDS) to capture screening results. Screening tests offered during pregnancy can be captured in MSDS via SNOMED codes, however information relat...