New resource:-The Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Counselling Competences

Published: 27 March 2013

The RCN has been engaged in producing Competences for Counselling for Sickle cell and Thalassaemia.

The work was commissioned by the NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme to define the competences required by health professionals working with families affected by or at risk of sickle cell and/or thalassaemia. The competences refer specifically to those areas of health care in which the focus is on supporting families or individuals to deal with genetic risk. In many cases the practitioner will be a sickle cell or thalassaemia counsellor, but the competences are also relevant for other health professionals such as genetic counsellors, or specialist midwives or health visitors working in high prevalence areas.

The link to the competences is http://sct.screening.nhs.uk/counselling-competences-training