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A bioethics view on the latest covid vaccination policies
13 Sep 2021
With the UK Government due to announce its Covid winter plan, Danielle Hamm, Director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, provides a bioethics perspective on recent and expected policy developments relating to covid vaccination.
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New public dialogue identifies priority areas for COVID-19 policy making: addressing inequalities, building public trust, and involving the public
27 Sep 2021
A new public dialogue exploring the ethical and social considerations of COVID-19 has found that addressing the societal inequalities worsened by the pandemic, building trust and transparency into government policies, and involving the public more in policy making are key areas of public concern and interest.
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Nuffield Council on Bioethics responds to Government announcement on regulation of gene-edited organisms
28 Sep 2021
Following a consultation held by Defra earlier this year, the Government has announced plans to reform the regulation of genome-edited organisms, beginning with plants and then extending to animals and microbes at a later date.
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Nuffield Council on Bioethics welcomes new law restricting Botox and fillers for under 18s
01 Oct 2021
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Nuffield Council's ethical compass to be adopted in the Philippines
05 Oct 2021
Our ethical compass - proposed in our report on global health emergencies as a way of using shared values to work through ethical dilemmas – is to be adopted as a guide for Research Ethics Committee processes in the Philippines.
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Mandatory vaccinations for health and social care workers: Nuffield Council on Bioethics urges Government to gather more evidence and explore other options more thoroughly before introducing coercive measures
14 Oct 2021