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HTA licensing of emergency mortuary facilities [1]
Date published: October 2014

Information for regional resilience teams on licensing of emergency mortuaries
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Guide for the public on post-mortem scanning [2]
Date published: October 2016

This brief guide provides information about post mortem examinations which do not require the body to be opened. These use the same types of imaging equipment used to examine the living, for example patients with cancer, referred to as cross-sectional imaging. Please click on the link below to...

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Regulation of the Post Mortem Sector 2014 - 16: What we have learned [3]
Date published: December 2016
Regulation of the Post Mortem Sector 2014 - 16: What we have learned
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Contingency arrangements for mortuaries during busy periods [4]
Date published: November 2017
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Histopathology Working Group: 5 May 2017 [5]
Date published: April 2018
Histopathology Working Group: 5 May 2017 [5]
Histopathology Working Group: 26 January 2018 [6]
Date published: April 2018
Histopathology Working Group: 26 January 2018 [6]
Histopathology Working Group: 19 June 2018 [7]
Date published: August 2018
Histopathology Working Group: 19 June 2018 [7]

Strategic briefing on the post mortem sector [8]
Date published: November 2018

This document aims to provide an overview of the Human Tissue Authority’s (HTA) role in the regulation of post-mortem examination. It also aims to provide leaders of services and board members with an overview of the key strategic issues facing mortuaries and of the potential consequences when...

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Guidance on traceability procedures of the deceased [9]
Date published: October 2020
The HTA traceability licensing standards aim to ensure that procedures to identify the deceased are robust. This is important to protect the dignity of the deceased.
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Release of the wrong body incidents in the Post Mortem sector [10]
Date published: October 2020

Incidents or near-miss incidents – what we have learned:
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Links
[1] https://www.hta.gov.uk/policies/hta-licensing-emergency-mortuary-facilities
[2] https://www.hta.gov.uk/guidance-public/guide-public-post-mortem-scanning
[3] https://www.hta.gov.uk/policies/regulation-post-mortem-sector-2014-16-what-we-have-learned
[4] https://www.hta.gov.uk/contingency-arrangements-mortuaries-during-busy-periods-0
[5] https://www.hta.gov.uk/about-us/committees/histopathology-working-group#meeting40343
[6] https://www.hta.gov.uk/about-us/committees/histopathology-working-group#meeting40344
[7] https://www.hta.gov.uk/about-us/committees/histopathology-working-group#meeting40446
[8] https://www.hta.gov.uk/policies/strategic-briefing-post-mortem-sector
[9] https://www.hta.gov.uk/policies/guidance-traceability-procedures-deceased
[10] https://www.hta.gov.uk/policies/release-wrong-body-incidents-post-mortem-sector