Lyme Disease: Screening

(asked on 12th September 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has plans to improve the quality of Lyme disease tests.


This question was answered on 15th September 2016

The National Health Service and Public Health England (PHE) use well established validated diagnostic tests for Lyme disease that are highly reproducible between laboratories. International External Quality Assurance schemes are in place to ensure consistency between different tests centres.

However, Lyme disease is a complex infection; we recognise that there are real challenges in diagnosis and we are further strengthening the evidence base. Commercial manufacturers and international academic groups have research programmes into improved tests. PHE continuously reviews new Lyme serology tests and will validate and implement new tests if appropriate.

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