Hta

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust must proactively share Human Tissue Authority reports with organisations that rely on Human Tissue Authority licensing for assurance of the service provided by the …

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Board must have greater oversight of licensed activity in the mortuary. It must ensure that the Designated Individual is actively involved in reporting to …

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust should treat compliance with Human Tissue Authority standards as a statutory responsibility for the Trust, notwithstanding the fact that the formal responsibility under the …

NHS trusts should ensure that Designated Individuals have enough time and resource to fulfil their responsibilities, including time for learning and development.

Trust boards should take note of the fact that mortuary services are subject to statutory regulation and should be treated with equivalent regard to other regulated activities within trust governance …

All organisations providing anatomical education and training using donors should make sure that policies and procedures are in place to ensure the security and dignity of donors. These should include: …

Postgraduate training providers using donors should ensure clarity in their governance and information-sharing, in particular where the providers are linked to both university and NHS settings. This clarity should include …

The Human Tissue Authority should change its guidance to require that relevant adverse incidents in the anatomy sector are formally reported as Human Tissue Authority Reportable Incidents (HTARIs).

There must be audits of the mortuary Standard Operating Procedures and compliance with Human Tissue Authority requirements, undertaken annually as a minimum, with a clear record of authorisation by the …

The mortuary service must be treated in the same way as other regulatory services within local authority reporting structures: The mortuary must be visible to scrutiny at the relevant statutory …

Local authorities providing an unlicensed body store must be prepared to comply with the Human Tissue Authority's standards and guidance where applicable, in the event that a Human Tissue Authority …

The NHS should ensure that the security standards required for body stores are the same as those required for facilities licensed by the Human Tissue Authority.

The UK government should establish an independent statutory regulatory regime, headed by a Chief Inspector, for those who store and care for deceased people. The purpose of the regulatory regime …

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 …