04 Apr 2019 Government and NHS leaders could do more to encourage collaborative relationships between healthcare staff and parents of critically ill children The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has published a briefing note outlining the factors that can contr...
14 Mar 2019 Call for a global moratorium on heritable genome editing Yesterday in an article in Nature, a group of scientists and ethicists from seven countries called f...
07 Mar 2019 NHSBT launches new organ donation strategy for children NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) has launched its first paediatric and neonatal organ donation strat...
27 Feb 2019 ‘Commercial genomics’ chosen for a new inquiry by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee following Nuffield Council proposal Today the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee published their 'My Science Inquiry'...
26 Feb 2019 Scotland debates opt-out organ donation bill A Bill to introduce a move in Scotland to an 'opt-out' system of organ and tissue donation will ...
25 Feb 2019 Nuffield Council welcomes ban on junk food advertising on TfL networks From today, junk food advertising will be banned on the entire Transport for London (TfL) network in...
20 Feb 2019 Government ‘Code of Conduct for data-driven health and care technology’ references Nuffield Council principles The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published a new 'Code of Conduct for data-dr...
19 Feb 2019 Statement on ethical requirements for opt-out organ donation as Lords debate legislation Today, the Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Bill moves to the report stage in the House of Lords, tak...
08 Feb 2019 Care Quality Commission to regulate private providers of non-invasive prenatal testing following Nuffield Council recommendation The Care Quality Commission (CQC) now considers non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) to be within it...
01 Feb 2019 Statement on Science and Technology Committee’s report on the impact of social media and screen-use on young people’s health We welcome the findings and conclusions of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee's...
21 Jan 2019 Nuffield Council on Bioethics to pitch ‘commercial genomics’ inquiry to MPs The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has been invited to pitch an inquiry on commercial genomics to the...
