Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve early diagnosis of genetic haemochromatosis.

Steps to improve diagnosis of rare conditions, including genetic haemochromatosis, are being taken through the implementation of the of the UK Strategy for Rare Diseases, available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rare-diseases-strategy

The Genomic Medicine Service is supported by the National Genomic Test Directory which specifies the genomic tests that are commissioned by the National Health Service in England. Genetic haemochromatosis is included in the Test Directory.