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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.
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Finding the missing pieces – how genomics is helping to diagnose and treat rare diseases
For every 17 people reading this article, statistically one of us will be affected by a rare disease at some point in our lives. Put another way some seven per cent of the population in the UK, or roughly 3.5 million people, are living with one of the 6,000 rare diseases we currently know about […]