2002

20-12-2002: CORE Judicial review on PGD with tissue typing

The HFEA is disappointed by the decision that PGD with HLA tissue typing is prohibited and has stated that it will appeal. The Authority will be considering the judgement carefully and taking advice.

14-12-2002: HFEA 11th Annual Report

Today, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority published its Eleventh Annual Report and Accounts, which reviews its work over the past two years and includes a forward look that outlines the way the Authority intends to work in the future.

12-12-2002: Statement on the Hampshire case

Following the conviction at Southampton Crown Court of embryologist Paul Fielding on eight charges of false accounting and three charges of actual bodily harm.

02-12-2002: Health ministers announce new members of the HFEA

Health Minister Hazel Blears today announced the appointment of four new members to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) and the reappointment of one existing member.

02-12-2002: HFEA expresses concern about financial incentives for egg donation

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has expressed concern about reports that young women students are being encouraged to sell their eggs in donation programmes based in the United States of America.

25-11-2002: HFEA welcomes Government announcement on extra funding

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority today welcomed an announcement by Government that it will receive significant extra funding.

20-11-2002: New Chief Executive to Advance HFEA Modernisation

Introducing the newly appointed interim Chief Executive of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, Angela McNab, the Authority Chair, Suzi Leather, said she was sure that Ms McNab was the right person to take forward the Authority's modernisation agenda.

18-11-2002: HFEA announcement re. Chief Executive Officer

Following a unanimous vote of no confidence by its members, the Chairman of the Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority ('the Authority'), Ms Suzi Leather, has decided to ask Dr. Maureen Dalziel to step down as Chief Executive.

04-11-2002: Statement on The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust v A and Others

The HFEA issued the following statement after the President of the Family Division named the Assisted Conception Unit at Leeds General Infirmary (part of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust) as the unit where use of the ´wrong' sperm during ICSI/IVF resulted in the birth of twins.

23-10-2002: HFEA launches public consultation on 'sex selection'

A consultation document published today by the Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority asks if it is right that people should be able to use assisted reproductive techniques to choose to the sex of their child and, if so, for what reasons.

23-10-2002: HFEA dismisses claims that IVF children need health checks as 'ludicrous'

The HFEA is not, as has been reported, about to launch a study on the long term effect of assisted reproductive techniques on children born from them. And there is no substance to reports that the HFEA is intending to ´call in' children born as a result of assisted conception for ´health checks'.

20-09-2002: HFEA Statement on acquittal of Mr Robert Bates

It is not possible to comment on the acquittal of Mr Bates or on matters relating to the case, in view of outstanding criminal prosecution against another person.

11-09-2002: Suzi Leather, Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority clarifies the Authority's role in regulating stem cell research

Speaking at a conference today, organised by the Medical Research Council (MRC), Suzi Leather, Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority clarified the Authority's role in relation to stem cell research.

11-09-2002: HFEA statement on the systems currently in place to prevent use of the 'wrong' infertility treatment

The HFEA is prevented, for legal reasons, from commenting on the alleged "IVF mix up" that has been widely reported. However, the HFEA can confirm that it is aware of the background and has investigated the matter. Patients and prospective patients can be assured that all clinics are required to have procedures in place that minimise the risk of such errors occurring

30-08-2002: HFEA data shows improvement in IVF success rates

Provisional statistics on the success rates of individual IVF clinics, released today, suggest that more women starting in vitro fertilisation treatment are likely to have a child as a result.

01-08-2002: HFEA confirms that HLA tissue typing may only take place when PGD is required to avoid a serious genetic disorder

The HFEA confirmed today that tissue typing through preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) may only take place when PGD is required to select embryos for treatment that are not affected by a serious genetic disorder.

18-07-2002: Response to House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report, developments in human genetics and embryology

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) welcomes the report's call for new legislation to cover the complex ethical issues of human genetics and embryology.

01-07-2002: HFEA to consult on regulation

Today, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is issuing a consultation document explaining how it intends to improve the regulation of infertility services in the UK, and what the cost of this will be for patients and clinics.

15-04-2002: HFEA statement on the cost of multiple births resulting from IVF

The HFEA has no plans to compel clinics to take out insurance to cover neonatal care required by multiple births resulting from assisted reproduction. Nor does the HFEA have plans to further restrict the number of embryos that may be put back in a cycle of IVF, despite the views of retired HFEA chair, Ruth Deech, as reported in The Times (13 April).

28-02-2002: HFEA Licence Committee approves two applications for research on human embryos to produce stem cell lines

The HFEA has approved two applications for clinics to carry out research on human embryos to produce stem cell lines - the first to be issued under the new HFE (Research Purposes) Regulations 2001

Last updated: 11 April 2007