Tiggy Johnstone-Burt, Vicky Cuthill and Sally Shillaker: Our Nurses, Our Future

In this weeks' episode of the G Word, Naimah Callachand, Head of
Product Marketing at Genomics England, is joined by Tiggy
Johnstone-Burt, a Macmillan Genomics Clinical Fellow and a
clinical nurse specialist, Vicky Cuthill, a nurse consultant, and
Sally Shillaker, a health visitor and practice development lead
in genomics, to discuss how both nurses and health visitors play
a vital role in the patient care pathway for those who have
received a genetic diagnosis.


For this years' International Nurses Day on 12 May, we're
celebrating a brighter future of nursing. With the rapid advances
in genomic medicine, both nurses and health visitors are uniquely
positioned to translate genomic information into clinical care
and to educate patients and families about the role of genomics
in their health.


 


 


You can read to the transcript here:
International-Nurses-Day.docx


 


"I would love to see an NHS service where genomic testing was
part of the standard routine care…This is a beautiful example of
advanced practice and I think that we [nurses and health
visitors] are perfectly placed to be taking this on, and I'd
really like to see a better recognition of that in the future."