Mark Bale, Department of Health

Mark Bale PhD is the Deputy Head of the Health Science and Bioethics and a Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser in the UK Department of Health. He has overall responsibility for several areas of emerging healthcare science and their ethical, legal and policy implications. The current priorities include genomics, stem cells, embryology and assisted conception, human organs and tissue, screening and early diagnosis and sexual health.

100,000 genomes

Professor Dame Sally Davies and Mark Bale, Department of Health, 30 January 2014 - New techniques

In December 2012 the Prime Minister announced an ambitious plan to sequence the genomes of 100,000 NHS patients over the next five years. To meet the ambitious target, the Department of Health has established Genomics England. By Professor Dame Sally …

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