Liz Twist

Liz Twist

Labour — Blaydon and Consett

Speaking in the House of Commons on 22 June 2026

Debate

Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Newborn Screening Test

Contribution

I certainly do agree. The test should be made available to everyone to prevent people from living with the effects of SMA that could have been diagnosed and treated. As I was saying, it is important that we now have testing, but we must expand it to the whole of the UK very quickly.

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