PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Haemochromatosis: Screening (24 February 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to incorporate blood tests for serum ferritin and transferrin saturation into the NHS Health Check, as a cost-effective means of identifying people at risk of iron overload from genetic haemochromatosis earlier in life.

Asked by:
Sir John Hayes (Conservative)

Public Health England has no current plans to do so.

Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
9 March 2021