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		<title>Articles from the PHG Foundation Newsletter</title>
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			<title>Medical data explosion requires urgent system changes</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/11/2011/#story_10492</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A new report -&amp;nbsp;Towards Precision Medicine&amp;nbsp;- published by the&amp;nbsp;National Research Council&amp;nbsp;earlier this month highlights the need for new systems to incorporate the ever growing health and disease-related information into a single resource that can help improve health outcomes.The re ... ]]></description>
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			<title>DNA sequencing used to determine child's treatment</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/01/2011/#story_7057</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Further tests based on the diagnosis indicated that the boy had a high probability of death if untreated, and this led to the decision to perform the transplant. The child&amp;rsquo;s parents were counselled for several hours prior to the test being administered, to ensure their awareness of the risks o ... ]]></description>
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			<title>New genetics guide for Australian health professionals</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/10/2007/#story_3795</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A new guide on genetic conditions for primary care clinicians in Australia has been launched. Genetics in Family Medicine: The Australian Handbook for General Practitioners was reportedly developed in response to demand for support on genetics from GPs by the Genetics Education in Medicine Consortiu ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Primary Care Genetics Society launched</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/03/2007/#story_3185</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A new society devoted to the implications of genetics for primary care practice has been launched in the UK. The Primary Care Genetics Society (PCGS) aims &amp;ldquo;to support and facilitate the educational needs of primary care practitioners to help translate the continuing advances in clinical geneti ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Report explores aspects of role reversal in the doctor-patient relationship</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/11/2005/#story_2115</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Researchers at the University of Sheffield School of Health and Related Research and the Genetic Interest Group have released a report of a project investigating the doctor-patient relationship. “‘Expert patients and non-expert doctors’: the challenges and opportunities of role reversal in the docto ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Knowledge of family health history is poor</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/02/2005/#story_837</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[    88% of GPs surveyed on behalf of the insurance company Norwich Union Healthcare said patients should know more about hereditary conditions; even when patients did provide basic family histories, less than half of the doctors felt confident about this information (see BBC news item). Another surve ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Concerns raised over the falsifying of family histories</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/04/2005/#story_786</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[    The BBC has reported that geneticists in Manchester are concerned that women are claiming a false family history of breast cancer in order to get treatment (see BBC news story). Treatment can include the removal of their breasts. Such women may be suffering from a psychological disorder similar t ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Start-up funding available for GPs with a special interest in genetics</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/08/2004/#story_1398</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Department of Health (DH) has announced that funding is now available to support ten general practitioners who have a special interest in genetics in primary care. The need for genetics expertise is increasing in primary care settings and, as part of its commitment set out in the genetics White  ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Commissioning of specialised services: views on the shape of things post-StBOP</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/03/2003/#story_1134</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ In April 2002 the changes introduced by the policy initiative “Shifting the Balance of Power” (StBOP) established the Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) as the bodies primarily responsible for commissioning activity in the NHS. PCTs have a population base (about 100,000) that is too small to be appropriate  ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Department of Health announces review into commissioning of specialised services</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/07/2002/#story_1073</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Within the National Health Service in England, the principles of the part of the NHS Plan known as “Shifting the Balance of Power” (StBOP) have resulted in the establishment of Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) as the key units responsible for securing health services for their local populations, and the a ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Genetics commissioning guidance for Primary Care Trusts</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/11/2002/#story_1105</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The reorganisation of the NHS following the policy outlined in Shifting the Balance of Power places the main responsibility for commissioning health services on the new primary care trusts (PCTs). This has created some uncertainty with regard to specialised services, such as genetics services, that  ... ]]></description>
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			<title>National Institute for Clinical Excellence invites expressions of stakeholder interest in development of familial breast cancer guidelines</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/07/2002/#story_1069</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The National Institute for Clinical Excellence has commissioned the National Collaborating Centre for Primary Care to develop guidelines for the “classification and care of women at risk of familial breast cancer in primary, secondary care and tertiary care”. The guidelines will be applicable in Eng ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Cancer charities provide GP guidelines on breast cancer genetics</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/01/2002/#story_1024</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2002 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Cancer Research Campaign and the Imperial Cancer Research fund (soon to merge) are to provide an information pack for GPs to help them make more appropriate referral decisions about women concerned about their genetic risk of breast cancer (see report in BBC News On-line). Research over the last ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Cancer genetics triage</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/02/2002/#story_1032</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2002 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ There has been much discussion about how to manage the increasing demand for specialist genetic services from people concerned about their genetic risk of cancer. Elwyn et al present the results of a study to determine the reactions of GPs in Wales to a triaged all-Wales cancer genetics service [Elw ... ]]></description>
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			<title>GMC issues new guidance on research ethics</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/02/2002/#story_1029</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2002 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ In its guidance &quot;Research: the role and responsibilities of doctors&quot;, the General Medical Council sets out the duties of doctors involved in research in the NHS, or in the academic or private sectors. The guidance covers not just clinical trials, but &quot;genetic studies, epidemiological research includ ... ]]></description>
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			<title>BMJ special issue on genetics</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/04/2001/#story_932</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The 28 April issue of the British Medical Journal is a special issue almost entirely devoted to genetics and its impact (current and potential) on health care and health services. The coverage ranges from primary papers on mortality from familial hypercholesterolaemia (Sijbrands et al) and the value ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Genetic advice in primary care</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/01/2001/#story_889</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ There has been much discussion about the role of the GP in identifying people who are at increased genetic risk of disease, particularly breast or bowel cancer. Some hold the view that the GP should take a family history from every patient at the initial consultation, while others think that GPs sho ... ]]></description>
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			<title>GP referrals to cancer genetics services</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/05/2001/#story_945</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2001 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Two recent papers in the journal Family Practice discuss the appropriateness of GP referrals to the Regional Genetics Service because of concerns about a family history of breast cancer. Watson et al found, in a survey of 45 GPs who referred patients to the Oxford Regional Genetics Service, that onl ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Evaluation of computer support for GPs in assessing genetic risk of cancer</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/07/2000/#story_766</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Emery et al have developed a computer programme called RAGs (Risk Assessment in Genetics), which is designed to help GPs take family histories of patients presenting with concerns about their genetic risk of breast or ovarian cancer, and to assess their level of risk as low, medium or high. To evalu ... ]]></description>
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			<title>Cancer genetics: what role should the GP play?</title>
			<link>http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/month/01/2000/#story_710</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The study by Leggatt et al on the use of a family history questionnaire by GPs to identify patients at high genetic risk of cancer (see item in Setpember 1999 Newsletter) has stimulated some correspondence in the BMJ. Emery questions whether primary care physicians should be actively seeking out ind ... ]]></description>
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