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January 2009 GP Bulletin article – Clinical Genetics
Clinical Genetics offers a family-based service providing genetic counselling for children and adults who have, or who may be at risk of inheriting, a genetic condition, and for conditions where genetic testing can be used for carrier detection or prenatal diagnosis.
The Oxford Regional Genetics Service is based at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford and provides a service for a population of approximately three million people across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Northamptonshire and the Swindon area of Wiltshire.
General and cancer genetic clinics are held on a regular basis in Oxford and at hospitals throughout the region. In order to provide continuity of care, consultants and genetic counsellors are responsible for certain geographic segments of the region and some genetic counsellors are now based in local hospitals.
If you wish your patient to be seen in the local genetic clinic please specifically request this in the referral letter – the consultant to whom you write will then pass on the referral to the appropriate colleague. If, however, you wish a particular clinician to see a patient (because of a known specialist interest) please make this clear in the referral letter; it is more likely that the patient will be offered an appointment in Oxford in this instance.
Referrals can be made in writing. For urgent advice, please contact us directly by telephone.
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Department of Clinical Genetics
Churchill Hospital
Old Road
Headington
Oxford OX3 7LJ
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Tel: 01865 226009 / 226028
All referrals for a non-urgent cancer appointment must be accompanied by a completed family history questionnaire. Any new referral received without the completed questionnaire cannot be processed and will be returned to the referrer.