| answer text |
<p>The NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme offers screening to all pregnant women
in England to assess the risk of the baby being born with Down’s syndrome or a number
of fetal anomalies (structural abnormalities with how the fetus has developed).</p><p>
</p><p>There is no current systematic collation of data at a national level of the
uptake of screening for either Down’s syndrome or the 18<sup>+0</sup>-20<sup>+6</sup>
week (18-21 week) fetal anomaly scan.</p><p> </p><p>The Down’s syndrome screening
quality support service (DQASS) can provide data on the number of completed screening
test that were undertaken for Down’s syndrome in the last five years and these are
presented in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>First
trimester tests</p></td><td><p>Second trimester tests</p></td><td><p>Integrated</p><p>tests</p></td><td><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>120,122</p></td><td><p>185,606</p></td><td><p>7,049</p></td><td><p>312,777</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>212,331</p></td><td><p>219,917</p></td><td><p>8,550</p></td><td><p>440,798</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>271,977</p></td><td><p>191,516</p></td><td><p>3,616</p></td><td><p>467,109</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>441,355</p></td><td><p>120,094</p></td><td><p>3,996</p></td><td><p>565,445</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>455,995</p></td><td><p>100,371</p></td><td><p>3,796</p></td><td><p>560,162</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>468,172</p></td><td><p>89,959</p></td><td><p>2,892</p></td><td><p>561,023</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p>
|
|
