• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Already widely used in the western world, glad we’re catching up. This will save lives, hopefully lessen strain on the NHS, reduce waiting times, and reduce the misery of kids silently suffering without proper support.

    Goes without saying, but this data should remain with the NHS, and the only time it should leave is when appropriately anonymised for medical research purposes (which already happens, the NHS helps a shit load of international researchers).

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      5 months ago

      It should not remain in the NHS in my opinion. It should be deleted after the analysis is done.

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    5 months ago

    Well parental consent to this is going to be interesting, given the father only gets it if the name is on the birth certificate (so marrital state is relevant) and that wouldn’t happen for several weeks. So really the mother gets to decide…so paternity fraud is going be forefront of discussions.

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    5 months ago

    Sounds like they need to speed up the test, if it takes 10 years then they won’t be babies anymore by the time they get results.

  • Wanderer@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Can’t believe England’s going to get this before people stop fucking their cousin.