The British Society for Genetic Medicine (2026) Managing incidental findings: guidance for rare and inherited disease diagnostic genomic testing.

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The British Society for Genetic Medicine, Referring to specialist genetic clinics.

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Department of Health (2022) Northern Ireland Rare Diseases - Action Plan 2022/23 and reports.

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Department of Health and Social Care (2026) England rare diseases action plan 2026.

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NHS England, Genomics Education Programme (2023) The 2023 genomic competencies framework for UK nurses.

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NHS England, Genomics Education Programme (2025) Genomics learning passport for nurses.

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NHS England, Genomics Education Programme: Genomics in nursing.

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NHS England (2025) Nursing and midwifery genomics framework in England.

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NHS England: National genomic test directory.

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NHS Race & Health Observatory and The University of Nottingham (2024) Ethnic Inequities in Genomics and Precision Medicine.

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NHS Wales (2023) Wales Rare Diseases Action Plan 2021 - 2026.

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Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Pathologists and British Society for Genetic Medicine (2019) Consent and confidentiality in genomic medicine: guidance on the use of genetic and genomic information in the clinic. 3rd edn.  London: RCP, RCPath and BSGM.

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Scottish Government (2024) Genomic medicine strategy 2024 to 2029.

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Scottish Government (2026) Rare disease action plan: progress report 2026.

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World Health Organization, Health Topics: Genomics

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NHS England: Genomics

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NHS Choices: Genetic and genomic testing.

• Information aimed at the public.
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Carey N (2019) Hacking the code of life: how gene editing will rewrite our futures. London: Icon Books.

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Coulson J (2025) Genomics for nurses: an introduction. Oxford: Taylor & Francis Group.

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Dhar S, Nagamani S and Eble T (2020) Handbook of clinical adult genetics and genomics: a practice-based approach, London: Elsevier Science & Technology.

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Genomics Education Programme and Health Education England (2017) The Genomics game. London: Focus Games.

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Ginsburg G S et al. (eds.) (2022) Genomic and precision medicine: oncology. 3rd edn. London: Academic Press.

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Harper P (2020) The evolution of medical genetics: a British perspective, Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis Group.

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Kelly L and Stanford W P (eds.) (2025) Implementation of personalized precision medicine: expanding the clinical vision towards prevention, early detection and precision treatment of disease to drive extended healthspan. London: Academic Press, Elsevier.

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Lilley L L, Collins S R and Snyder J S (2023) Pharmacology and the nursing process. 10th edn. St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier.

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Pyeritz R E, Korf B R and Grody W W (2022) Emery and Rimoin’s principles and practice of medical genetics and genomics: hematologic, renal, and immunologic disorders. 7th edn. San Diego: Elsevier Science & Technology.

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Riedijk S and Diderich K E M (2021) Prenatal genetic counseling: practical support for prenatal diagnostics, decision-making, and dealing with uncertainty. San Diego: Elsevier Science & Technology.

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Roy K B and Mathiesen A (2024) Foundations of perinatal genetic counseling: a guide for counselors. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Subasic K (2022) Fast facts on genetics and genomics for nurses: practical applications. New York: Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated. 

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Tarasov Y (2025) Genomics: its role in treatment and ethics. Allied Health Press.

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Use these links to see details of books the RCN libraries hold on each topic.

• Genomics
• Genetic nursing
• Genetic counselling
• Genetic screening/testing
• Pharmacogenomics

Use these links to see details of journal articles on each topic.

• Ethics and genetics
• Epigenics
• Genetic counselling
• Genetics and paediatric nursing
• Genetics education for nurses
• Genetic testing
• Genomic medicine
• Genomic nursing
• Personalised medicine
• Pharmacogenomics
• Prenatal genetics

• BMC Clinical Epigenetics
• BMC Medical Genomics
• Human Genomics
• International Journal of Genomics
• Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine
• Nature Reviews: Genetics

Genomics England (2015) The 100,000 Genomes project – Jessica’s story (video).

NHS England, Genomics education programme (2021) Genomics in midwifery animation (video).

NHS England, Genomics education programme (2018) nursing in the genomic era (video).

Future Learn: The genomics era: the future of genetics in medicine.

• A free 5-week course that provides healthcare professionals with a basic grounding in genomic medicine.
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NHS England Genomics education programme (2018) Genomics in healthcare (e-learning module).

• This course introduces genomics and how it is and will be applied in healthcare. If you work for the NHS or a UK university, access is free.
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NHS England Genomics education programme (2021) Nursing educator’s toolkit (teaching resource). This toolkit has been developed to support educators delivering the subject as part of their pre-registration training programmes. This toolkit has been endorsed by the RCN

• This toolkit has been developed to support educators delivering the subject as part of their pre-registration training programmes.
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