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Human Tissue Authority

A press statement issued on 8th February 2005 advised “Baroness Hayman was appointed as Chair of the Human Tissue Authority when it comes into effect on 1 April 2005.

Baroness Hayman will oversee the implementation of the new HTA, which will ensure that consent is obtained for the removal and use of human tissue and organs for research and other purposes.

The HTA will be established on 1 April 2005 in order to prepare the ground for implementing the Human Tissue Act from 1 April 2006.

The HTA will be the regulating authority for matters relating to activities such as anatomical and post-mortem examinations, transplantations and the storage of material for education, training and research.

The HTA will also issue Codes of Practice covering consent, definition of death, anatomical examination, post-mortem, removal, storage and disposal of human tissue and import/export of human organs and tissues.”

Members of the new HTA should be in place by the end of March 2005, we will try to keep you updated.

PITY II (Parents who have Interred Their Young Twice) is the parents' support group set up in the wake of the organ retention scandal
at Alder Hey Hospital (Liverpool, UK). It aims to provide self help support and advice to affected families.


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