12 Sep 2017 Message from Dave Archard, new Council Chair I was delighted to take up the position of Chair of the Council earlier this summer. My connection w...
05 Sep 2017 Ethics think tank calls for discussion around wishes for organ donation before and after death, and robust evidence before any legal change is considered The Nuffield Council on Bioethics today (4 September) calls for discussion around wishes for organ d...
04 Aug 2017 Council publishes a collection of views on legal limit for embryo research, 25 years after UK’s first fertility legislation came into force The Nuffield Council on Bioethics today (4 August) publishes a series of discussions on the statutor...
24 Jul 2017 Guidance on information that should be provided to patients about NIPT The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has produced a guidance leaflet for private providers of non-invas...
14 Jul 2017 Council responds to NIHR Futures of Health consultation The Council has submitted a response to the National Institute for Health Research's (NIHR) consul...
22 Jun 2017 Cosmetic procedures practice and promotion ‘cause for serious concern’, says ethics think tank “There are legal age limits for tattoos and sunbeds. Children should not be able to walk off the s...
03 May 2017 New Parliamentary briefing note on global health inequalities A new briefing note on global health inequalities has been published by the Parliamentary Office of ...
05 Apr 2017 David Archard announced as new Chair of Nuffield Council on Bioethics We are pleased to announce the appointment of David Archard as the new Chair of the Nuffield Council...
16 Mar 2017 Response to HFEA licence to Newcastle Fertility Centre In response to the announcement today that a licence has been granted to Newcastle Fertility Centr...
09 Mar 2017 Comment from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on the Paediatric Regulation In 2015 the Nuffield Council on Bioethics published a report on children in clinical research: ethic...
01 Mar 2017 New pregnancy testing technique needs limits says ethics body A new report on non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics expresse...
15 Feb 2017 Council responds to NAS-NAM report on human genome editing The US National Academies of Sciences (NAS) and National Academy of Medicine (NAM) have today releas...