Congenital Heart Defects     

FOI REFERENCE: 24186  FOI DATE: 24^th June 2024   

When congenital heart defects ARE NOT identified during screening at the 20 week fetal anomaly scan;   

a) Does your trust currently retain the fetal cardiac views?  Not usually as per the NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme (FASP) guidance. On occasion if a patient is scanned in the fetal medicine team, images may then be stored.

b) Were fetal cardiac views retained in 2021 and 2022? No as per above.

c) If views are currently retained, are these still images or video clips?  If images are taken by the fetal medicine team, both still and video clips are kept in cases where suspected differences have been identified

d) For how long has your trust had this fetal cardiac view retention policy? As long as the FASP guidance has been in place.