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05 December 2013
The Council is looking to recruit a Research Officer to carry out relevant research, organise meetings, oversee the management of information resources, provide and revise drafting for papers and reports, manage the production of publications, and...
26 November 2013
The Council and the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) have today announced a new Fellowship to help promote informed debate of bioethics among Parliamentarians.
The Council is funding a three-month Fellowship based at POST each...
20 November 2013
Susan Wallace of the Council’s Working Party on biological and health data addressed 280 secondary school students during the third annual L’Oréal Young Scientist Centre unconference at the Royal Institution on Friday 15 November...
15 November 2013
We are pleased to announce that the Council is supporting children’s radio station Fun Kids to develop educational radio features that introduce children and parents to basic concepts of bioethics and aims to promote discussion of a range of...
07 November 2013
Today has seen the launch of Personal Genome Project UK, an organisation seeking 100,000 UK volunteers to have their genomes sequenced. Their sequence analysis data will be made available to the volunteers and to researchers around the globe. The...
16 October 2013
Press Release
How should researchers, public services and entrepreneurs make use of the ever increasing volume and variety of biomedical data now being collected? What implications do such uses have for the privacy of individuals?
The Nuffield Council on...
30 September 2013
The Council is seeking to recruit a Programme Officer to help develop and implement a new programme of activities that aims to engage wider and more diverse audiences. The role is varied and offers an opportunity to support the Council as it...
27 September 2013
The Council’s Working Party on biological and health data held its second fact-finding meeting on 12 September 2013. The meeting was focused on privacy and data control issues in research and clinical practice, and the Working Party...
07 August 2013
Press Release
Would you let your child take part in clinical research? How much say should children have in these decisions? Should they be encouraged? These and other such questions are at the heart of a new inquiry from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, which...
29 July 2013
The Council’s suggestion of paying the funeral costs of organ donors has been included in the Scottish Government’s strategy for organ donation.
The strategy, ‘A donation and transplantation plan for Scotland 2013...
23 July 2013
The Council’s Working Party on biological and health data held its first fact-finding meeting on Friday 19 July, marking a shift from the initial scoping phase of the project into the evidence gathering period. During the meeting, members of...
18 July 2013
The Council’s new Working Party on children and clinical research held a stakeholder meeting on Wednesday 17 July. Guests included young people and parents with a strong interest in or personal experience of participating in clinical research...
11 July 2013
The Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee of the European Parliament has today voted to reduce the amount of transport fuel derived from food-based renewable sources in the EU. MEPs voted in favour of draft legislative measures which...
03 July 2013
The National Assembly for Wales has voted to approve a soft opt-out system for consent to deceased organ and tissue donation for Wales starting from 2015. The stated aim of the Bill is to increase the number of organs and tissues available for...
28 June 2013
The Department of Health today announced plans to draft regulations that pave the way for new treatments to prevent the transmission of inherited mitochondrial DNA disorders. The Chief Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies, said that draft regulations...
24 June 2013
Press Release
New technologies that can help people with serious disorders affecting the brain are needed, but must be used in ways that put the care and safety of patients first, says a report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
The report looks at ethical...
24 June 2013
The former Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Professor Albert Weale, has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to political science.
All at the Council would like to send their warmest congratulations to...
07 June 2013
All at the Council were saddened to hear that Sir Patrick Nairne, the first Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, died on 4 June 2013.
Sir Patrick chaired the Council in its early years from 1991-1996, during which time it published landmark...
04 June 2013
The Council has a broad membership which is revisited from time to time to ensure that it includes the appropriate experience and expertise. We are now seeking applications for new Council members and we would particularly welcome applicants with...
03 June 2013
The Council will publish a report on the ethical issues arising from the development and uses of novel neurotechnologies on 24 June.
This report follows an 18-month inquiry chaired by Professor Tom Baldwin, Professor of Philosophy, University of...
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