Human application

Organisations that treat patients with human tissue and cells, including stem cells, skin and heart valves are licensed by the HTA. The use of human tissue to treat patients is referred to as human application. A licence for human application can be issued to a wide variety of organisations, including eye banks, maternity units and organisations that store skin and bone.

Uses of human tissue

Human tissue and cells can be used to treat patients in a range of different ways, including  corneas to treat people with sight problems, skin and bone to treat burns or repair injuries, heart valves to treat heart disease and cord blood which may be used in the future to treat the child or another person.

Please use the links on the left of this page to access information for the human application sector.

Annual activity data

We have contacted all establishments in the human application sector to request annual activity data. This data covers the period January to December 2009. We are asking establishments to submit the data online. We emailed DIs to provide the link to the website page for data submission.

The completed annual activity data must be submitted to us by 11 February 2010. Please be aware that it is a standard condition of your licence to supply us with this data.

Guidance about the 2010 annual activity data collection is available.

For more information please contact Lucy Atwal, Regulation Officer: lucy.atwal@hta.gov.uk or 020 7211 3448.