10/10/2000
The Association of Genetic Nurses and Counsellors unveiled their new website.

13/10/2000
The Genetics And Insurance Committee (GAIC) of the UK Department of Health, which includes Professors Di Donnai and Sandy Raeburn, announced today that it would recommend allowing insurance companies to use results of genetic tests for Huntington disease. The announcement was covered by the press - on the front page of the Daily Mail ( "Insurers get go-ahead for gene testing."), at the BBC website ("Genetic test first for UK"), and in the BMJ (full text available).

13/9/2000
The role of BSHG webmaster has been passed from Shane McKee  to Phil Zack. Shane has done a splendid job of building the website from scratch over the last 3 years, and will be a hard act to follow!

11-13/09/2000
This year's British Human Genetics Conference (2000) in York.

30/05/2000
The Clinical Genetics Society consultation document on the Role of a Clinical Geneticist is now available on this site. Your comments are most welcome.

22/02/2000
Towards Clinical Governance in Clinical Genetic Practice is a report of a working group of the British Society of Human Genetics, aiming to set out how the principles of Clinical Governance can be applied to the specialty. The text of this report will soon be available on this website.

16/02/2000
The BACR announced a special conference: Seventh Workshop on the Cytogenetics and Genetics of Solid Tumours on 7th-10th Sept 2000. The conference was principally about the use of molecular cytogenetics for the study of solid tumours. The use of micro-arrays were also featured at this meeting.