Alan Ma, Timothy P Newing, Rosie O'Shea, Akira Gokoolparsadh, Emma Murdoch, Janette Hayward, Gillian Shannon, Lucy Kevin, Bruce Bennetts, Gladys Ho, Janine Smith, Margit Shah, Kristi J Jones, Sarah Josephi-Taylor, Sarah A Sandaradura, Lesley Adès, Robyn Jamieson, Nicole M Rankin
AIM: Recent rapid advances in genomics are revolutionising patient diagnosis and management of genetic conditions. However, this has led to many challenges in service provision, education and upskilling requirements for non-genetics health-care professionals and remuneration for genomic testing. In Australia, Medicare funding with a Paediatric genomic testing item for patients with intellectual disability or syndromic features has attempted to address this latter issue. The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network - Westmead (SCHN-W) Clinical Genetics Department established Paediatric and Neurology genomic multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings to address the Medicare-specified requirement for discussion with clinical genetics, and increasing genomic testing advice requests...
April 11, 2024: Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health