NT scan on NHS?

[isthisnameavailable]

Nuchal Transulency scan, do the NHS do it?

Thanks

[Xmasbaby11]

yes.

[isthisnameavailable]

for all women or over 35s?
When did this begin?
Is it just in some areas?

[Pastabee]

It is for all women at my hospital but I got the impression this is a policy that is set regionally?

[louby86]

It's for all women where I live too. I even got called back on another day to have an extra scan because baby was too wriggly to get an accurate NT measurement at my first scan.

[Iggly]

Everyone gets one here - you don't have to though but I don't think you get a normal scan at 12 weeks. It's always a NT and you're sent to the local teaching hospital for one.

[rumcrumble]

Where I live you don't, even if over 35.

[PotteringAlong]

Depends where you are - I got it, best friend lives 5 miles down the road but different health authority and she didn't!

[CosmicMouse]

Depends where you live. My trust didn't offer the Nuchal Translucancy part in 2009 when I was pregnant with my daughter, but I was offered it at my recent 12 week scan with this baby. We declined.

[misdee]

north herts offer a NT or a dating scan. i only had the dating scan last week as am over 13weeks (15 weeks 2 days at the scan)

[hairylights]

Not here.

[Sandra2011]

Here in Wiltshire it's only for women over 40.

[KatAndKit]

Depends on your area. My area offers it to all women at the 12 week dating scan as standard. You can still have a 12 week scan if you don't want the NT screening and just have the blood test. Some areas don't offer it to anyone at all.

[PieMistress]

I think it depends on where you live. When I was pregnant with DS it wasn't offered on the NHS so I had to pay privately for it (but at the NHS hospital!) however they now offer it as routine in Grampian for everybody so things have changed.

[EdlessAllenPoe]

where i am - yes, everyone who wants

[justhayley]

I'm in west Herts and everyone is offered regardless of age I had it at my 12 week scan

[chocjunkie]

My trust does not offer it. We did it private. it seems to be a postcode lottery.

[DejaWho]

Got the choice of a "normal" dating scan or the NT one here - also have an express referral route from the recurrent miscarriage clinic (cutting out the midwife referral part of the loop) as there's an acceptance that those women may have a different perspective on things like amnio than those coming in off a first pregnancy.

We've decided to go for the NT scan but will not go for the follow ups if there's an increased risk shown.