Joint Committee on Medical Genetics

The Royal College of Physicians, The British Society for Human Genetics, The Royal College of Pathologists

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Terms of Reference:

To promote and maintain the highest standards of practice in both clinical and laboratory applications of genetics in medicine.
To discuss and co-ordinate advice to Government and other bodies on policy and services issues relating to genetics in medicine.
To report and receive information from the parent bodies.
To co-ordinate advice on workforce planning.
To initiate working groups on specific topics of particular importance. This would be subject to agreement by the parent bodies when significant expenditure was envisaged but the Joint Committee would be free to authorise small working groups.
To assist parent bodies in the development of their academic activities.
To provide a unified forum for these activities.