§ 21. Mr. Tony LloydTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement on the provision of facilities for screening and counselling for sufferers of sickle cell anaemia.
§ Mrs. CurrieScreening and counselling services are provided by district health authorities which decide the resources to be devoted locally to this inherited blood disorder in the light of local needs and competing priorities. As at August 1987 there were 10 National Health Service sickle cell counselling centres in England.