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Leaders from diagnostics firms and academia discussed the challenges of assessing these tests and the need for a consensus on how to bring them to the clinic.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced last week his plans to scrap the body, a dozen years after it was established to lead the National Health Service in England.
UK Prime Minister Plans to Abolish NHS England
The abolishment of the agency is aimed at reducing bureaucracy and the duplication of services provided by the UK Department of Health and Social Care.
UK Launches National Pathogen-Agnostic Metagenomics Surveillance Effort
The UK Health Security Agency will use anonymized metagenomics data to monitor disease epidemiology and detect emerging pathogens.
UK Provides £1.4M in Funding for Two-Year Study on Genedrive Test to Prevent Newborn Hearing Loss
The Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust will study across the UK the use of Genedrive's MT-RNR1 ID Kit as a pharmacogenomic test to prevent hearing loss.