In preparation for ODT establishments considering or planning, for transplantation services to resume, we have created this guidance. This is aimed at transplant centres considering using “clean sites” or alternative hospital premises to their base location in order to resume their transplant programmes.
You will need to inform the HTA of your plans using the contact details at the bottom of the page.
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.
T1(a): Bodies are tagged or labelled upon arrival at the mortuary.
T1(b): There is a system to track each body from admission to the mortuary to release for burial or cremation (for example, mortuary register, patient file, or transport records)
Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, have developed model consent forms, information and guidance for health professionals seeking consent for post mortems on babies who have died before, during or shortly after birth. The aim is to make it easier for health professionals and parents to discuss post mortems and will ensure that parents can make informed choices.
The disposal of pregnancy remains, which are considered to be the mother’s tissue, is not within the scope of the HTA’s regulatory remit.
The HTA was asked by Professor Dame Sally Davies, the then Chief Medical Officer, in 2015 to develop guidance in this area and work with other organisations to monitor compliance.
The purpose of this guidance is to set out our policy on human tissue xenografts, whether they are relevant material that fall under the licensing framework of the HT Act 2004 and the consent implications.
This page sets out the legal requirements of the HT Act with regard to consent for post-mortem examination, tissue retention and storage of tissue from the deceased.
