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Lord Grade of Yarmouth (Non-Afl)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 5 January 2026

Debate

Sudden Cardiac Death: Screening for Young People

Contribution

My Lords, although great strides are being made in medicine, as I understand it, to study individuals’ genetics to predict a propensity to get diseases later in life, this raises a serious question about how the insurance market is going to respond to that. I would be very dubious about going in for one of these screening tests because inevitably health insurance would be refused for anything that showed up. It is a great advance in medicine to be able to predict what you might or might not get, but there is a serious issue with insurance companies. Is that on the Government’s agenda?

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