23 Nov 2018 Statement on the House of Lords second reading of the Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Bill Today, the second reading of the Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Bill will take place in the House o...
20 Nov 2018 Risking the unknown in hope of a cure: The ethics of patient access to experimental treatments The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has today published a new briefing note highlighting the ethical i...
16 Nov 2018 NIPT - review of activities since publication In March 2017, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics published a report, Non-invasive prenatal testing: ...
18 Sep 2018 Council comment on call for ban on using NIPT for sex determination Prompted by an investigation by the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show, the Labour Party has called fo...
04 Sep 2018 Cosmetic procedures: one year on It has been just over a year since we published our in-depth report Cosmetic procedures: ethical iss...
06 Aug 2018 Response to Government’s plans for an ‘opt-out’ system for organ donation The Government has announced plans to move to an 'opt-out' system of consent for organ and tiss...
17 Jul 2018 Heritable genome editing: action needed to secure responsible way forward An independent inquiry by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has concluded that editing the DNA of a ...
09 Jul 2018 Disagreements in the care of critically ill children: challenges for policy in changing social and medical contexts Over the next few months we will be carrying out a short project on the disagreements that can arise...
