Human Tissue Authority Website

This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) website.

[Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive using the links listed below (for a general explanation of these parallel links, please see the Arrangement field)]:

Human Tissue Authority (HTA) (http://www.hta.gov.uk/).

Human Tissue Authority (HTA) (https://www.hta.gov.uk/).

Please see information at Divisional level.

This series contains more than one link to the ‘snapshots’ of this website. For some websites, the URL may change periodically. Despite this change to the URL these websites are part of the same record series as they represent the department or organisation’s presence on the web at the time. Occasionally, more than one domain URL to the same website may run in parallel creating an overlap.

• Department of Health, 1988-1988
• Human Tissue Authority, 2004-2004

Topics

Official publications

The Human Tissue Authority (HTA) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and are overseen by an Authority of lay and professional members appointed by the Government. The HTA regulates the removal, storage, use and disposal of human bodies, organs and tissue for a number of scheduled purposes such as research, transplantation, and education and training. The HTA was created by the Human Tissue Act 2004; it came into being on 1 April 2005 and its statutory functions began on 1 April 2006.