The Generation Study: exploring genome sequencing in newborns

Amanda Pichini, Clinical Director at Genomics England, explains how the Generation Study hopes to provide evidence to inform future screening approaches.
Amanda Pichini, Clinical Director at Genomics England, explains how the Generation Study hopes to provide evidence to inform future screening approaches.
From 1 February 2025, the NHS Targeted Lung Health Check (TLHC) Programme will be known as the NHS Lung Cancer Screening Programme.
The importance of the NHS screening programmes to the public’s health is underlined in a high level summary of data from the NHS Screening Programmes in England for the screening year 2021 to 2022.
The UK NSC is holding an online seminar on 27 February, focusing on multi-cancer tests. Sign up now.
The UK NSC has announced 2 new dates for its popular screening masterclass, one in May and one in July.
Minutes published of UK NSC meeting held on 21 November 2024.
Detailed planning work under way for implementation of newborn screening for tyrosinaemia in England.
The latest meeting of the SMA Screening In-service evaluation Partnership Board heard that interim results of a new modelling study into SMA screening for the UK context had been presented to a stakeholder workshop.
‘An excellent experience all round’: screening professionals are full of praise for 5-day Warwick course.
The UK NSC is consulting on whether to offer an HPV self-sampling option to people who rarely or never attend their cervical screening appointments.