Government Launches Consultation on Future of UK Human Fertilisation and Tissue Regulators
By Ayesha Ahmad,
BioNews
| 07. 02. 2012
The UK Government has launched a consultation on the future of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) and Human Tissue Authority (HTA) amid proposals to transfer the regulators' functions elsewhere.
The UK-wide consultation asks for views on whether the HFEA and HTA should be abolished and the regulator's responsibilities reallocated to the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with the HFEA's research functions transferred to the newly formed Health Research Authority – or if some functions should be transferred to organisations other than the CQC. It also asks for views on whether the HFEA and HTA should continue to retain their functions, with further cost-savings made.
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