Genethics
The Genethics Forum is a national forum for the discussion, by health professionals, of practical ethical problems encountered in the working lives of clinical genetics departments in the United Kingdom.
The Genethics Forum takes place three times a year and anyone working in a clinical genetics department is welcome to come along. The meetings are relatively informal in order to facilitate discussion of cases presented from different centres. The meetings usually include a plenary talk on a particular theme of interest, such as for example, a talk by a medical lawyer on the law on confidentiality in genetics. The meetings are multi-disciplinary and aim to have a medical ethicist and an academic medical lawyer present at each meeting.
The Forum’s Aims
- To help health professionals to identify ethical issues arising in the day to day practice of their work with patients and families
- To help geneticists, genetic counsellors and nurses to develop their skills in identifying and resolving ethical issues
- To provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of cases from units around the country
- To encourage the sharing of good practice
- To help units to develop ways of ensuring that ethical considerations inform the day to day practice of their units
- To contribute to the improvement of ethical decision-making in practice
Who is it for?
Anyone working in the specialty of clinical genetics/genomics, as well as medical lawyers or ethicists with an interest in genetics.
[There will be a charge for attendance at both our virtual and in-person meetings to cover associated costs.]
Plenary Speaker: Dr Rachel Horton, ‘What is the nature of a genomic result?‘
If you would like to attend any of these meetings or wish to discuss a case with Anneke Lucassen or Michael Parker, please contact: genethics.forum@gmail.com