All NHS patients could be offered £100 DNA test in 'new era of medicine'

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All NHS patients could be offered £100 DNA test in 'new era of medicine'
NHS England has set up a working party to look at rollout to avoid millions of reactions to commonly prescribed medicines including painkillers, beta blockers and antidepressants

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Martin Bagot Health and Science editor

• 00:01, 29 Mar 2022

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Everyone could be offered a DNA test on the NHS for key drugs by next year in what experts are calling “a new era of medicine”.

The pioneering test of blood or saliva costing £100 will be used by GPs and pharmacists to check for 40 common gene variations that mean drugs either do not work or trigger dangerous side effects.

Four in ten of us currently suffer such adverse reactions at some point in our lives and the most serious can be fatal.

NHS England has set up a working party to look at rollout to avoid millions of reactions to commonly prescribed medicines including painkillers, beta blockers and antidepressants.

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