Wes backs Jesy's call for change

Health Secretary support for star on 'life-changing £5 heel prick test

- BY MARTIN BAGOT Health Editor

WES Streeting has vowed to look into Jesy Nelson's call for newborn screening for a rare condition that can leave tots paralysed.

The Health Secretary responded to the former Little Mix singer's revelation on Sunday that her twin babies, Ocean Jade and Story Monroe Nelson-Foster, had been diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy.

Families of infants left paralysed are demanding the government adds a £5 blood test for the condition, previously known as “floppy baby syndrome”, to the heel prick test.