article_snippet.sent: Current guidelines only recommend testing women deemed to be 'at risk'.
article_snippet.sent: The only recorded cases during the 12-month programme affected babies of women who had not agreed to be tested.
article_snippet.sent: so clinicians babies would not have been protected.
article_snippet.sent: Yet these results confound the decision, prompting calls for the Government to introduce universal testing for pregnant women during standard ante-natal appointments, as is the case in Germany, France and the US.
article_snippet.sent: Known as the enhanced culture method, the test simply involves taking a swab from the woman.
article_snippet.sent: the test would cost the NHS approximately £11 per patient.
article_snippet.sent: But her daughter was told it was 'not standard practice' and there was 'no reason' to give her daughter test.
highlights_snippet.sent: Only recorded cases during the year affected babies of women who had not agreed to be tested .