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Partnership to protect public health – MHRA and HTA sign agreement
Working in an increasingly innovative environment, regulatory authorities must balance their essential roles in protecting public health with making sure new, innovative treatments are made available to the UK healthcare sector at the earliest, safest opportunity.
Regulation of the Post Mortem Sector 2014 - 16: What we have learned
Regulation of the Post Mortem Sector 2014 - 16: What we have learned
HTA Statement on a Family Court Case Regarding Cryo-Preservation of a Child
Background to the Case
National Pathology Week
This year, the Royal College of Pathologists’ National Pathology Week is taking place between 7-13 November, and will be an opportunity to recognise and celebrate pathology and the important contributions pathologists and laboratory professionals make to healthcare.
New EU Coding Platform now available
The European Commission has launched the web-based
NHS Blood and Transplant announce 500 people have now donated a kidney to a stranger
A decade ago it first became possible for individuals in the UK to donate a kidney to someone they did not know, and had never met - this form of living donation is known as non-directed altruistic donation.
BBC Three have aired a televised post mortem, September 2017
Obesity: The Post Mortem - BBC 3 Documentary Featuring a Post Mortem Examination Aired date: Tuesday 13 September
Planning for winter pressures
The House of Commons Health Select Committee ran an inquiry into planning for winter p
The Human Tissue Authority publishes compliance reports for the Anatomy and Research sectors
The Human Tissue Authority (HTA), the regulator for human tissue, cells and organs, has today published compliance reports for establishments licensed in the