MiDavies – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by MiDavies on 2016-05-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of the Italian model of cardiac screening for young people involved in sport.

Jane Ellison

There are a number of questions relating to the effectiveness of the Italian programme that are not available in published literature. The screening programme had been asked previously to provide unpublished data and information but have not to date done so. I wrote to the Italian government again in February 2016 with no response received. Departmental officials will continue to follow this up.

The most recent review of risk of sudden cardiac death reviewed published evidence and literature relating to a variety of programmes including that in Italy;

http://legacy.screening.nhs.uk/suddencardiacdeath

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