Genomics: Health Services

(asked on 11th September 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of patient genomes have been sequenced by the Genomics Medicine Service as of 11 September 2023.


Answered by
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Will Quince
This question was answered on 18th September 2023

The NHS Genomic Medicine Service, in partnership with Genomics England, is the first clinical service in the world to offer whole genome sequencing as part of routine care for rare disease and cancer patients. As of September 2023, 66,266 whole genome equivalents (the number of whole genome sequences undertaken, including, and adjusting for the complexity of, cancer tumour sequences) have been sequenced through this service.

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