{"id":328,"date":"2025-08-14T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/geneticservice\/how-to-get-genetic-counselling\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T10:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:38:48","slug":"how-to-get-genetic-counselling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/geneticservice\/how-to-get-genetic-counselling\/","title":{"rendered":"How to get Genetic Counselling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How can I be referred for genetic counselling?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a variety of methods to be referred to a clinical genetics department. These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>General Practitioner<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Specialist Doctor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other Professionals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How can I find my regional genetics centre?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a number of regional genetics centres in the U.K.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Scotland, there are 4 main regional Clinical Genetics Departments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Edinburgh(South East) Clinical Genetics Department<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsggc.scot\/staff-recruitment\/staff-resources\/laboratory-medicine\/clinical-genetics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Glasgow(West) Clinical Genetics Department<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhsgrampian.org\/nhsgrampian\/gra_display_simple_index.jsp?pContentID=7219&amp;p_applic=CCC&amp;p_service=Content.show&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aberdeen(North) Clinical Genetics Department<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhstayside.scot.nhs.uk\/OurServicesA-Z\/Genetics\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dundee(East) Clinical Genetics Department<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of these centres also run outlying clinics in the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can I be referred for genetic counselling? There are a variety of methods to be referred to a clinical genetics department. These include: How can I find my regional genetics centre? There are a number of regional genetics centres in the U.K.&nbsp; In Scotland, there are 4 main regional Clinical Genetics Departments: Each of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/widewidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-328","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"NHS Lothian","author_link":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/geneticservice\/author\/nhs-lothian\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"How can I be referred for genetic counselling? There are a variety of methods to be referred to a clinical genetics department. These include: How can I find my regional genetics centre? There are a number of regional genetics centres in the U.K.&nbsp; In Scotland, there are 4 main regional Clinical Genetics Departments: Each of","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/geneticservice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/geneticservice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/geneticservice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/geneticservice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/geneticservice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/geneticservice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/geneticservice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/328\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/geneticservice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/services.nhslothian.scot\/geneticservice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}