Law reforms must ‘future proof’ the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, says HFEA Chair

Julia Chain, Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, has explained in a speech to the Progress Educational Trust Conference the need to ‘future proof’ proposed reforms to the governing legislation.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority recently set out a range of recommendations to modernise the UK’s 33-year-old fertility law.

The 15 proposals cover four areas where the law should be modernised in the interests of patients, professionals and researchers:

• patient safety and promoting good practice,

• access to donor information,

• consent and

• scientific developments.

Ms Chain said:

“[W]e need a law that can protect patients not only in the sector as it now is, but the sector as it’s going to be in years to come – and we haven’t even begun to appreciate the effect of international sources of patient care, or AI or numerous other things that are now becoming commonplace in the UK.”

Read the full article below.

https://www.familylawweek.co.uk/services-should-do-more-to-stop-domestic-abuse-killings-domestic-abuse-commissioner/