Support the preparation of reports and the reporting process for patients being investigated for genetic disorders.

Knowledge and skills you might demonstrate

• Range of reporting formats and options.
• Relevant professional guidelines for reporting.
• Policy for authorisation and disclosure of results and the need for confidentiality and information governance.
• Factors involved in evaluation of clinical risk to the patient and their family.
• Procedures for issuing written results, verbal results or for faxing.
• Patterns of inheritance (Mendelian and non-Mendelian), including imprinting.