Genomics in Scotland: Building our Future Strategy Summary

5. What do we want to achieve through this work?

Our vision is to establish a genomic medicine service that improves the lives of people in Scotland in order to:

• Provide the genomic tests needed to support the best possible medical care for people in Scotland.
• Support people and their families before, during and after genomic testing.
• Ensure we have enough people across the NHS with the skills and knowledge to carry out genomic testing and to understand and interpret test information.
• Build safe and secure data systems able to cope with the large amounts of complex information generated by genomic testing.
• Talk with people across Scotland about genomic medicine, what it means for them and what they may be worried or excited about.
• Support research, development, and innovation in genomic medicine to keep learning and make sure that new knowledge can benefit people in Scotland.