HFEA welcomes the Nuffield Council on Bioethics report on information in donor conception
17 April 2013
The HFEA welcomes this report about donor conception published by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics today.
Their recommendations balancing the ‘interests’ and ‘responsibilities’ of all those involved in the fertility treatment process very much mirror the work we have already undertaken.
Last year we launched the National Donation Strategy Group which aims to raise awareness of donation and improve information availability to all those affected by donor conception.
Professor Shelia McLean, Chair of the Group said:
“As the Chair of the National Donation Strategy Group, I particularly welcome the report’s recommendations’.
We recognise the importance of information to people affected by donation and one of our tasks is to help donors provide better information about themselves for future families.
We look forward to studying the council’s report in more depth.”
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Notes to editors
- The HFEA is the independent regulator for IVF treatment and embryo research. Our role is to protect patients and the public interest, to drive improvement in the treatment and research sectors and to provide information to the public and policymakers about treatment and research.
- The HFEA was set up in August 1991 as part of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. The HFEA’s principal tasks are to license and monitor clinics that carry out in vitro fertilisation (IVF), artificial insemination (AI) and human embryo research. The HFEA also regulates the storage of gametes (eggs and sperm) and embryos.
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