Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 28491

Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Medical Treatments

Tabled: 4 February 2025
Answered: 25 February 2025

Question

Steve Barclay

ConservativeNorth East Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the cost to the public purse for the treatment of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in accordance with the NICE Quality Standard QS204 in each of the last fi

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The Department does not collect information on the numbers and proportion of patients with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) because it is not possible to specifically classify FASD within the National Health Service dataset. FASD is an umbrella term...

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