Governance around supporting Patients and the Public

What are stakeholder groups?
What are the aims of our stakeholder groups?
What are the approaches that will achieve stakeholder group aims?

What are stakeholder groups?
Companies, such as charities and health organisations, that liaise with the public and the NHS to improve services and provide more transparency for patients.

What are the aims of our stakeholder groups?
To improve awareness of, and access to, genomic medicine.

What are the approaches that will achieve stakeholder group aims?

1. 1. Oversight of genomic projects through national, regional and local committees
   2. Offering insight into new strategic ventures and lobbying
   3. Improved communications through outreach events, standard and social media
   4. Targeted support to potentially vulnerable or seldom heard from groups at high risk of disease such as south Asian women with breast cancer and African Caribbean men with prostate cancer
   5. Shared good practice and partnership working such as cancerPDX.com, ‘Make a person aware’ campaign and ‘Genes don’t care what you wear’ campaign.

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