Information for medical practitioners
The following required fields must be carefully filled in in the referral:
referral date;
referral due date;
it must be indicated that the test will be paid by the NHS;
the requested information about the patient; and
the patient must also sign the referral that he/she agrees to undergo the prescribed DNA test and to receive the DNA test result, and agrees that the DNA test result is sent to the doctor;
the patient's diagnosis code;
reason for testing;
information required by the referring doctor and the referring institution;
number of DNA tests to be performed, the DNA test to be performed on the patient, on page 2 of the referral,
the referring doctor must sign the document.
The following specialists are eligible to refer for DNA tests paid for by the NHS: geneticist, oncologist, oncologist-chemotherapist, haematologist, paediatric haematologist-oncologist, hepatologist, endocrinologist, gastroenterologist, infectiologist, gynaecologist, obstetrician, neurologist, immunologist, allergist, neurosurgeon, paediatrician, or radiology specialist. Only a urologist, andrologist or geneticist can refer to a state (NHS) paid “Y chromosome microdeletion DNA test.”
Only a geneticist, gynaecologist, or obstetrician can refer a patient for a DNA test for the most common trisomy (for testing during pregnancy a sample of amniotic fluid or choroids is tested).
If the patient wants to pay for one of the DNA tests offered by GenEra him/herself, the referral is not mandatory but desirable.
2. Referral to GenEra for NIPT “Panorama” testing
NIPT “Panorama” is a paid service. The referral should be used by doctors whose patient has chosen to undergo the non-invasive NIPT “Panorama” examination.