Heart Diseases: Children
(asked on 19th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many children under the age of 18 have been screened for cardiac abnormalities in the last 10 years.
This question was answered on 22nd March 2018
The Department does not hold this information.
The United Kingdom National Screening Committee (UK NSC) advises Ministers and the National Health Service in all four United Kingdom countries on all aspects of screening. The UK NSC will review the evidence for screening for the major causes of sudden cardiac death in young people between the ages of 12 to 39 years in 2018/19 as per its three yearly cycle.