Our Vision                          

We are a national organisation working on behalf of children, young people, adults and families affected by metabolic disease. The National Information Centre for Metabolic Diseases is part of the Climb Group.  Climb (Children Living with Inherited Metabolic Diseases) is the United Kingdom's foremost provider of free metabolic disease information to young people, adults, families, professionals and other interested groups.

Our vision is to provide Metabolic Disease specific information, advice and support to children, young people, adults, families and professionals in the United Kingdom and to provide information and support to families worldwide, to fund educational and primary research programmes and to investigate treatments and medical services.

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ENews and Climb Update

What's  New

SCREENING PILOT FOR AN ADDITIONAL FIVE DISORDERS LAUNCHED IN ENGLAND

Stats to date:

There is  5 month's data.

Screened Positives = 5 (3 IVA + 1 MSUD + 1 GA1)

False Positives = 7 (1 MSUD + 6 IVA)

Sibling Identified Cases = 3 (2 IVA + 1 LCHADD)

Estimated number of expanded screening births

     for the first 5 months = 179,169

Number of Declines for Expanded Screening = 159 (0.09%)

Climb welcomed the DoH announcement to introduce this a Pilot for screening newborns for a further five disorders from July 2012. 

The official DoH estimate is that 35 children will be detected during the 12 month project by early detection of their IMD. and stats to the end of November (above) reflect these figures. .

This project has been extended and will continue until the 31st March 2014.

Full details are on the project website here...

What is a Metabolic Disease

Why do we screen babies