Media releases

Media releases for 2010

• Arms Length Body review

  Issue date: 26 July 2010

  HTA Chair responds to ALB review

• HTA welcomes new CEO – Craig Muir

  Issue date: 14 July 2010

  It has been announced that Craig Muir has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) with effect from 19 July 2010.

• More people come forward to be living organ donors

  Issue date: 16 June 2010

  New figures from the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) show that the number of people who want to donate an organ in life has increased for the second year running.

• HTA welcomes four new Authority Members

  Issue date: 1 April 2010

  The HTA announces today the appointment of new Authority Members: Professor Susan Dilly, Rosie Glazebrook, Suzanne McCarthy and Professor Gurch Randhawa. They take up their posts on 1 April 2010.

• Human Tissue Authority statement on Directed Deceased Allocation

  Issue date: 29 March 2010

  Vicki Chapman, Director of Policy and Strategy at the Human Tissue Authority (HTA), said:

• HTA voices concerns over unlawful cord blood collection

  Issue date: 9 March 2010

  The HTA is writing to over 150 organisations to warn of concerns that unlawful umbilical cord blood collection may compromise safety and quality standards.

• First pooled transplants performed in the UK

  Issue date: 8 March 2010

  The first pooled kidney transplants, each involving three living donors and three recipients, have been performed in the UK.

• Post mortem facilities at University Hospital of Wales

  Issue date: 4 February 2010

  HTA media statement

• Human Tissue Authority open letter on pathology

  Issue date: 22 January 2010

  “How real-life 'silent witnesses' save lives”, BBC Scrubbing Up column, 20 January 2010

• Human Tissue Authority statement on respectful interment of retained organs, foetuses and tissue samples

  Issue date: 18 January 2010

  Human Tissue Authority media statement