Congenital Abnormalities

(asked on 28th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will undertake an annual review of all congenital anomalies with the independent scientific advice of the Commission on Human Medicines, as recommended in the Report of the Commission on Human Medicines Expert Working Group on Hormone Pregnancy Tests, published on 15 November 2017.


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Steve Brine
This question was answered on 6th December 2017

The Commission on Human Medicines Expert Working Group on Hormone Pregnancy Tests made a number of forward-looking recommendations to further strengthen the systems in place for detecting, evaluating, and communicating risk with exposure to medicines in pregnancy. All suspected adverse drug reactions in pregnancy, including congenital anomalies, that are reported by healthcare professionals and women in the United Kingdom to the Medicines and Health products Regulatory Agency will be independently reviewed by experts. The findings and conclusions of the reviews will be published in the annual reports of the Commission on Human Medicines.

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