Recommendation P2-74: HTA require suitable qualified staff with enforcement
From Fuller Inquiry Phase 2 Report, published 15 July 2025.
Recommendation
The Human Tissue Authority, and/or the new inspectorate, should require the organisations it licenses to ensure that any individual who provides care to deceased people is suitably qualified, experienced and supervised. The regulatory regime should set minimum standards on the qualifications likely to be considered sufficient to demonstrate 'suitability' for particular roles or levels of responsibility. Failure to ensure that suitable individuals are employed would be subject to regulatory enforcement.
In brief (written by this site)
Relaying progress on the recommendation addressed to the Human Tissue Authority, the Department of Health and Social Care stated in December 2025 that the proposal remained under consideration (Department of Health and Social Care response, Dec 2025). In its interim update, the department recorded that this was among 21 recommendations that "remain under consideration", giving no separate detail on the licensing requirements (Department of Health and Social Care response, Dec 2025). The record holds no update since the department's response of December 2025 (Department of Health and Social Care response, Dec 2025).
Sources
AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 26 Sep 2026. The record below is the sources' own words.
Government response
For the remaining 21 recommendations, these remain under consideration.
How this response relates to the recommendation
Site note: This is the Department of Health and Social Care's interim update on government progress in responding to the phase 2 report, published on 16 December 2025. It sorts the 75 recommendations into those the government has accepted in full (11), accepted in principle (43) and is still considering (21), and gives words of its own only on the 11 accepted in full. Every word is the Department's, so the rows are filed under it, including where the passage reports what another body has done.
Site note: The recommendation is addressed to the Human Tissue Authority; the passage is the Department's account, not that body's. The update gives this sentence once, under its heading "Recommendations under consideration", and lists this recommendation there among the 21 it covers. It says nothing about this recommendation alone.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from Human Tissue Authority has been found in the sources searched (last checked 5 February 2026). This is separate from the response above.
Responsible bodies
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Who has spoken
- Department of Health and Social Care
Response