the heel prick blood test which all newborns are given, which is currently checking for nine different genetic conditions, including cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease. if they added this condition, which would be simple to do, then babies like arthur going forward could be treated within a week or two of birth, before symptoms emerge, and that would mean that they would do even better. 0ther that they would do even better. other countries are doing this, aren t they, why isn t the uk? well, it is bein: aren t they, why isn t the uk? well, it is being trialled, aren t they, why isn t the uk? well, it is being trialled, this aren t they, why isn t the uk? 11 it is being trialled, this newborn heel prick test, in the thames valley, coming soon. but the uk is frankly a little bit behind some other countries. southern belgium has been doing this for several years, and they have picked up this condition in nearly a dozen children and treated them all very quickly.