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.
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...
Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Babies