Primary Care Genetics Society launched 12/3/07. By the PHG Foundation A new society devoted to the implications of genetics for primary care practice has been launched in the UK.

The Primary Care Genetics Society aims "to support and facilitate the educational needs of primary care practitioners to help translate the continuing advances in clinical genetics into practice".

Supported by the Genetic Interest Group and in partnership with Cancer BACUP and the UK Thalassaemia Society, the Primary Care Genetics Society was launched at a conference in February on the relevance of clinical genetics to general practice medicine.

Issues discussed at the meeting included family history and genetic screening, ethical issues facing primary care, management of chronic genetic conditions in primary care, and genetics in cardiovascular medicine and cancer.

Presentations from the conference are available on the Primary Care Genetics Society website, which aims to provide news and resources for primary care practitioners "dealing with an ever demanding public who are continually being fed information about genetics from various sources including the internet and the lay media".

Adapted from a news release by the PHG Foundation.

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Primary Care Genetics Society