Former Chair of the HFEA
Baroness Ruth Deech is an academic, lawyer, bioethicist and politician, most noted for chairing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), from 1994 to 2002. She studied at St Anne's College at the University of Oxford, where she later became Principal. Baroness Deech sits as a Crossbench peer in the House of Lords of the UK.
Baroness Ruth Deech marks the 100th birthday of the late Baroness Mary Warnock, speaking at the latest PET event 'Mary Warnock at 100: The Architect of Embryo Law'...
In January the Department of Health published its response to the consultation on proposals to transfer the functions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the Human Tissue Authority to the Care Quality Commission and the new Health Research Authority...
Of course we are all against unnecessary regulation: and one of the areas of policy put forward by the new coalition government which has seemed to attract widespread support, even from those who hold no brief for them, is the abolition of superfluous quangos....
The current legislation regarding IVF is under review. The issue that uncovered the deepest feelings in the evidence received by the parliamentary scrutiny committee is the rather mild provision in Section 13(5) of the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Act that 'a woman shall not be provided with...
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