Guidance on the sensitive handling of pregnancy remains
Information on how the handle pregnancy remains.
Post mortem
Brain and spinal cord donation for hospital and mortuary staff
Many people, with the agreement of their relatives, want to support research into dementia and other brain diseases by donating their brain to a brain bank for research.
Brain banks encourage potential donors to provide written consent while they are alive so that brain donation can proceed smoothly after they have died. Donated brains can only be retrieved on premises licensed by the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) for removal and storage of tissues for use for research (see 1 below). Most of these premises are mortuaries in NHS hospitals.
Provision of forensic pathology services following regulatory action
The HTA has updated its protocol to ensure the provision of forensic pathology services in the event of regulatory action taken in England and Wales.
The protocol is entered into between the HTA, the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the Pathology Delivery Board, responsible to the Home Office for maintaining the forensic pathology service for the criminal justice system in England and Wales.