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Issue 8
Issue No. 8 - August 2008
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Latest from the HFEA
Focus on improvement report published
The report looks at the collective outcomes of inspection findings between April 2006 and March 2007.
It analyses inspections reports and highlights issues that centres need to address to improve their performance.
Read the full report.
Latest meeting of the Ethics and Law Advisory Group
The HFEA's Ethics and Law Advisory Group recently met to discuss papers on supportive parenting and embryo testing.
The group meets four times a year to review social, ethical and legal issues arising from, or affecting, activities in which the HFEA has an interest.
HFEA at BFS Summer College 2008
The HFEA will be exhibiting at the British Fertility Society Summer College 2008 event in Liverpool from 2-5 September.Alan Doran, HFEA Chief Executive will be speaking at the event, where there will be talks by international experts on various fertility issues.
Policy and Guidance
PGD applications
Applications for PGD and aneuploidy screening should be submitted electronically to the following address: PGD@hfea.gov.uk
News from the sector
Training workshops
As part of the national strategy to reduce multiple pregnancies, a series of regional workshops on "eSET: the team approach to successful strategies to reduce multiple births" have been held across the UK.
These workshops focused on the importance of accelerating the reduction in multiple births, sharing knowledge and encouraging open discussion.
Download the presentations from the workshops
National Meeting of the Donor Conception Network (DCN)
The DCN´s next national meeting will take place in Nottingham on 11 October. Speakers will be young donor-conceived adults and teenagers.
DCN are a self-help network of over 1000 families created with the help of donated eggs, sperm or embryos; couples and individuals seeking to found a family this way; and adults conceived using a donor.
Progress Educational Trust Annual Conference
Progress Educational Trust will be holding their Annual Conference on 19 November in the offices of law firm Clifford Chance in East London.
The conference will focus on the impact of the proposed new legislation, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, on individuals of different faiths, and will examine and contrast the attitudes of different faiths towards assisted reproduction.
Co-founder of voluntary contract donor register dies
David Marshall of UK Donor Link (UKDL) sadly passed away earlier this month.
David was instrumental in setting up UKDL which is a voluntary contact register for people conceived through donated gametes, their donors and half-siblings to exchange information and where desired to contact each other.
The register is specifically for anyone over the age of 18 who was conceived using donated sperm or eggs, or who donated, in the UK, before the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act came into force in August 1991.
Reproductive Technologies lectures
Baroness Deech, former HFEA Chair will be speaking at a series of lectures on Reproductive Technologies at Gresham College The lectures begin with the topic, Reproductive Technologies and the Birth of the HFEA on 25 September.
The lectures are free to attend.
For more information visit http://www.gresham.ac.uk/
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