15 Dec 2021 Embedding ethics in research – Nuffield Council welcomes guidelines for grant reviewers The Nuffield Council on Bioethics warmly welcomes new guidelines by UKRI and UNICEF that aim to help grant reviewers consider ethical issues when reviewing proposals for research in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.
03 Dec 2021 Ethical preparedness should be central to WHO agreement on pandemic preparedness We welcome the decision of the World Health Assembly to develop an international agreement on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response under the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO).
01 Dec 2021 Act now to ensure animal welfare is at the heart of plans to introduce genome editing into farmed animal breeding, says independent ethics body The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is calling on the Government to put animal welfare at the heart of plans to approve new breeding technologies in farming and food production, in a new report ‘Genome editing and farmed animal breeding: social and ethical issues’, published today.
09 Nov 2021 Nuffield Council on Bioethics welcomes delay in making COVID-19 vaccination compulsory for health care workers in England We welcome the announcement that COVID-19 vaccination will not become a condition of deployment for all healthcare workers in England until the spring.
26 Oct 2021 UKRI and Nuffield Council explore the UK bioethics landscape The Nuffield Council on Bioethics and UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) are working together to gain a clearer understanding of the bioethics landscape in the UK.
14 Oct 2021 Mandatory vaccinations for health and social care workers: Nuffield Council on Bioethics urges Government to gather more evidence and explore other options more thoroughly before introducing coercive measures
05 Oct 2021 Nuffield Council's ethical compass to be adopted in the Philippines Our ethical compass - proposed in our report on global health emergencies as a way of using shared values to work through ethical dilemmas – is to be adopted as a guide for Research Ethics Committee processes in the Philippines.
01 Oct 2021 Nuffield Council on Bioethics welcomes new law restricting Botox and fillers for under 18s
28 Sep 2021 Nuffield Council on Bioethics responds to Government announcement on regulation of gene-edited organisms Following a consultation held by Defra earlier this year, the Government has announced plans to reform the regulation of genome-edited organisms, beginning with plants and then extending to animals and microbes at a later date.
27 Sep 2021 New public dialogue identifies priority areas for COVID-19 policy making: addressing inequalities, building public trust, and involving the public A new public dialogue exploring the ethical and social considerations of COVID-19 has found that addressing the societal inequalities worsened by the pandemic, building trust and transparency into government policies, and involving the public more in policy making are key areas of public concern and interest.
13 Sep 2021 A bioethics view on the latest covid vaccination policies With the UK Government due to announce its Covid winter plan, Danielle Hamm, Director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, provides a bioethics perspective on recent and expected policy developments relating to covid vaccination.
10 Sep 2021 Members of the public give their views on uses of genomic technologies in farmed animals ahead of proposed changes to regulation The findings of a dialogue exploring people’s views about the adoption of genome editing technologies into animal farming have been published by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
