Health Minister announces new member of the HFEA
12 June 2003
Health Minister Hazel Blears today announced the appointment of a new member to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).
Hazel Blears said:
"I am delighted to announce the appointment of Ms Emily Jackson to the HFEA. Her background as an academic specialising in medical law and her detailed knowledge of the legislation governing assisted conception will be of great value to the Authority.
The HFEA faces new ethical and scientific challenges each day as technology and understanding in the field of reproductive medicine develop. I am confident that Emily Jackson will make a significant contribution towards the HFEA's important work of regulating clinics and assuring patient's safety."
The HFEA regulates in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and other assisted conception services in the UK. Its function is to ensure that all UK centres offering these services conform to high medical and professional standards and are inspected regularly. The HFEA also licenses and oversees all human embryo research in the UK.
Members of the HFEA are not appointed as representatives of different groups, but bring to the HFEA a wide range of medical, scientific and lay expertise.
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Notes to Editors
- The HFEA was established in 1991 by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. Its principal task is to license and regulate clinics that carry out in vitro fertilisation (IVF), donor insemination (DI) or human embryo research or store human sperm, eggs or embryos.
- Ms Emily Jackson is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics.
For further information please contact the HFEA press office.
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