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| Appointment of Human Tissue Authority Board Press release
published: Friday 1 April 2005
The HTA has been established today, 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 human material for education, training and research. The HTA will also issue Codes of Practice covering consent, definition of death, anatomical examination, post-mortems, existing holdings, removal, storage and disposal of human tissue and import/export of human organs and tissues. The HTA will be the competent authority for the regulations required by the EC Tissue and Cells Directive, which was adopted in April 2004. It is proposed that the HTA will merge with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in 2008 to form a new authority responsible for regulation and inspection relating to a wide range of human tissue, including, organs, tissues, cells, gametes, embryos and blood, excluding blood for transfusion purposes. The board members are: 1. Professor Michael Banner - Director, ESRC Genomics Forum 2. Dr David Davies - Licensed Anatomist, reader and lecturer in neuroscience 3. Mrs Shirley Harrison - Company Director, 4. Professor James Ironside - Professor of Clinical Neuropathology, University of Edinburgh 5. Jane Jeffs - Retired Chief Officer of Community Health Councils – Member appointed by the National Assembly for Wales 6. Professor El-Nasir Lalani - Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pathology and Honorary Consultant Histopathologist 7. Ms Sharmila Nebhrajani - Chief Operating Officer and Finance Director, BBC New Media & Technology 8. Dr Andrew Reid - HM Coroner, Inner North London 9. Mr Keith Rigg - Consultant General & Transplant Surgeon, Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust. 10. Dr Katherine Robson-Brown - Archaeologist, University of Bristol 11. Ms Helen Shaw - Co-Director of INQUEST charity working with bereaved people attending inquests 12. Professor Sir James Underwood - Professor of Pathology, University of Sheffield. President, Royal College of Pathologists 13. Mrs Michaela Willis - Chief Executive of the National Bereavement Partnership Other members will include a member appointed by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Northern Ireland to be announced soon and a board member with experience in nursing. For further enquiries, please contact Anna Brosnan at the Department of Health media centre on 020 7210 4984. For all other enquiries, please contact the Department of Health public enquiry line 020 8675 1066
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Health
Minister, Rosie Winterton MP, today welcomed the appointment by the
NHS Appointments Commission of members of the Human Tissue Authority
(HTA). Rosie
Winterton said "I would like to congratulate those appointed
to the board of the new Human Tissue Authority. The balance of experience
and skills they will bring to the work of the Authority will be essential
in helping the HTA establish itself and take forward its work programme."
The
Chair of the Authority, Baroness Hayman, said "The Authority
is fortunate to have members of an extremely high calibre, which I
think reflects the importance given to the work of the HTA. As Chair
of the HTA it gives me great confidence to be working with such a
strong team."