Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to deliver (1) training, and (2) education, to the NHS clinical workforce to support the use of (a) genomic medicines, and (b) interpretation of genomic data, in clinical decision-making.

Health Education England’s (HEE) Genomic Education Programme (GEP) is developing a range of resources to meet a variety of learning needs. This includes proactive learning tools covering the use of genomics in the diagnosis and management of patients and the interpretation of genomic data. A range of education and training is available from ‘bitesize’ learning courses to a level seven Masters in Genomic Medicine. The GEP is also developing GeNotes, which will provide education and training to clinicians at the point of patient care, guiding the use of the National Genomics Test Directory and the interpretation of genomic results. GeNotes will be available across specialties and developed for all professions. HEE expects to launch the first phase of this resource for the oncology speciality by 1 April 2022.