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To find a medical school to donate you body use the tool below.

Donating your body to a medical school is a valuable gift. Your donation will become an important resource for training healthcare professionals or for research. 

The Human Tissue Authority (HTA) licenses organisations that collect or receive bodies or other human materials. 

Under the Human Tissue Act 2004, written and witnessed consent must be given prior to death. Consent cannot be given by anyone else after your death.

Our role is to make sure that these organisations remove, store, and use brains, bodies and tissues in an appropriate, respectful and well-managed way, and that the wishes of individual patients and their families are respected. 

The HTA’s regulation helps ensure that tissue is stored to high standards, to be of most use to healthcare training and research. We know that more people are willing to donate in the knowledge there is an effective regulator that monitors and inspects organisations against certain standards. 

A full list of all the guidance that we provide for members of the public is below including information on body donation, organ donation and post mortems.

Our website contains lots of useful information.

Find out about applying for a licence in the licensing section of this website

Find practical guidance for professionals carrying our activity under the HTA's remit in our Codes of Practice section of this website.