We contribute to policy development in different ways. This includes providing government departments, arm’s-length bodies and professional bodies with evidence and expertise, through mechanisms including membership of committees and working groups. Between 2015 and 2020 we provided the secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Personalised Medicine.
The Group’s founding Chair was Jo Churchill, MP alongside Lord Norman Warner. The group provided a platform for politicians to explore the value of genomics and related technologies for the NHS. This mandate was fulfilled with the launch of the NHS Genomic Medicine Service and publication of the National Genomics Healthcare Strategy in 2020.
Jo Churchill, MP
2019
Gene therapy in the NHS
APPG meeting with Matthew Durdy (Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult), Sir David Amess MP and Lord Norman Warner
Towards a national genomic healthcare strategy
APPG roundtable, speakers Prof Sir John Bell (University of Oxford) and Ellen Graham (NHS England)
Our Healthy Future
Launch of PHG Foundation policy report
2018
Genomics and genome editing in the NHS
Oral evidence to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee inquiry
How will AI benefit NHS cancer patients?
PHG Foundation roundtable with speakers Prof Carlos Caldas (University of Cambridge), Dr Alan Karthikesalingam (DeepMind Health) and Helen Whately MP
Harnessing science and technology for personalised medicine
APPG reception with speakers Lord O’Shaughnessy (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health), Prof Sir Munir Pirmohamed (University of Liverpool), Dr Adam Platt (AstraZeneca), Dr Mark Kroese (PHG Foundation) and Helen Whately, MP
2017
Implementing a National Genomic Medicine Service for the NHS
APPG on Health / APPG on Personalised Medicine meeting with Prof Sue Hill (NHS England), Prof Lyn Chitty (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health), Dr Jean Abraham (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Hilary Burton (PHG Foundation), Helen Whately MP and Maggie Throup MP
