NHS abandons plan to let healthy people pay for DNA sequencing
by Ian Sample Science editor from Science | The Guardian on (#4KX7S)
Amid concerns over two-tier health system, new scheme will read volunteers' DNA for free
Government plans to sell DNA sequencing to healthy people on condition that they share their results for medical research have been scrapped amid concerns it would create an inequitable two-tier health system.
Matt Hancock, who survived Boris Johnson's cabinet makeover to keep his job as health secretary, announced the "genomic volunteers" plan in January, which included a paid-for option that would be offered to healthy people in England to boost medical knowledge and uncover new treatments.
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