Healthcare science
Chief Scientific Officer
Making sure science stays at the heart of the NHS to improve care.
What is healthcare science?
The work of healthcare scientists underpins 80% of all diagnoses.
Partners and stakeholders
We work across the healthcare system and cross-Government as the senior advisor on healthcare science.
Genomics
The 100,000 Genomes Project aims to make the UK the world leader in ground-breaking genetic research into cancer and rare diseases.
Personalised medicine
The future of health will see genomic medicine and next-generation diagnostics driving personalised treatments and interventions.
CSO programmes
Find out more about our various programmes across emerging science and innovation, quality improvement and system wide projects.
News and blogs
Welcoming a new era of innovative treatment for haemophilia patients
With therapies that can change a patients’ DNA, what once seemed like science fiction is now science fact. Since 2021, NHS England has commissioned three gene therapies for the treatment of specific rare genetic conditions, including onasemnogene abeparvovec (Zolgensma®) for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), atidarsagene autotemcel (Libmeldy®) for metachromatic leukodystrophy and eladocagene exuparvovec (Upstaza®) for […]