Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01823 · Session 5

Full body scans to all neonates in Scotland

Closed Submitted 13 Aug 2020 Health
Signatures
0
151 online signatures with a country
Comments
7
Considered
3 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to offer full body scans to all neonates in Scotland with the aim of detecting and hopefully treating rare and hidden conditions.

What the petitioner did first

I have spoken with Tom Arthur MSP about potentially raising this issue in the Scottish Parliament.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 8 Oct 2020
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention
  2. 13 Jan 2021
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  3. 27 Jan 2021
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention

Signatures by country

151 online signatures
  1. Scotland117 77.5%
  2. United Kingdom29 19.2%
  3. Pakistan5 3.3%

Comments

7 comments, oldest first
  1. Lydia Reid 19 Aug 2020
    Our babies are too important to make cost an issue
    Do all we can
    In the long run it may save money
  2. Alexis Holmes 22 Aug 2020
    I fully support this in memory of those we have lost.
  3. Suzanne Pirie 1 Sep 2020
    Having a genetic condition myself that I didn't know about until my 20s I think it's important to know these things a lot sooner. I probably still wouldn't know about my condition had it not been for a professor from London doing genetic tests on my whole family 30 years ago. We need more testing in younger years.
  4. Gillian Queen 1 Sep 2020
    All babies are a treasure and must be treated as such.
  5. Brian McKenna 6 Sep 2020
    A family member had an AVM (arteriovenous malformation) and was successfully treated at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow and the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh.
  6. Mark Reilly 7 Sep 2020
    Please sign this and support.
  7. Muhammad khuram 13 Sep 2020
    Please sign this.