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P2-24

Anatomical education security and dignity policies

Fuller Inquiry · Fuller Inquiry Phase 2 Report · Issued 15 July 2025 · Addressed to: Department of Health and Social Care

Government responseDepartment of Health and Social Care: Under consideration (Dec 2025)

DeliveryDepartment of Health and Social Care states no delivery position (Jun 2026)

Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry

●Inquiry recommendation

All organisations providing anatomical education and training using donors should make sure that policies and procedures are in place to ensure the security and dignity of donors. These should include: security and access policies and the auditing of security and access measures such as swipe card access, CCTV and access to the locations where donors are kept; governance arrangements to ensure effective oversight of and accountability for the security and dignity of donors; a review of contracts or agreements with external organisations for the transfer of donors to or between facilities; and policies and processes on incident reporting, both within the organisation and to the Human Tissue Authority, that are clear and accessible to all students and staff.

Fuller Inquiry, Fuller Inquiry Phase 2 Report · 15 Jul 2025 Source PDF →

Published evidence summary

AI-generated evidence summary

The Department of Health and Social Care stated in a June 2026 dashboard update that this recommendation on anatomical education security and dignity policies remained under consideration (Department of Health and Social Care, Jun 2026). In a June 2026 national system letter, NHS England reported that, where relevant to the health service, these actions had been reflected in its Premises Assurance Model (NHS England, Jun 2026).

AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 26 Sep 2026.

About this summary
This recommendation applies across many organisations. The record above reflects central policy activity; adoption in individual organisations may vary.

Government response

●Department of Health and Social Care · Under consideration · 16 Dec 2025

Words of: Department of Health and Social Care, Interim update on government progress in responding to the Fuller inquiry phase 2 report, 16 December 2025

For the remaining 21 recommendations, these remain under consideration.

Extract from: Interim update on government progress in responding to the Fuller inquiry phase 2 report

Site note: This is the Department of Health and Social Care's interim update on government progress in responding to the phase 2 report, published on 16 December 2025. It sorts the 75 recommendations into those the government has accepted in full (11), accepted in principle (43) and is still considering (21), and gives words of its own only on the 11 accepted in full. Every word is the Department's, so the rows are filed under it, including where the passage reports what another body has done.

Site note: The recommendation is addressed to the Department itself. The update gives this sentence once, under its heading "Recommendations under consideration", and lists this recommendation there among the 21 it covers. It says nothing about this recommendation alone.

Delivery

●Department of Health and Social Care states no delivery position · 16 Jun 2026

This recommendation is under consideration.

From: Fuller Inquiry Recommendations Dashboard

Site note: The source names this recommendation by number. The same dashboard row gives this recommendation's response as "Under Consideration" and its delivery status as "In progress"; every other recommendation it lists as under consideration is "Not started". The site records the progress cell's own words and resolves neither. The dashboard's own words are "This recommendation is under consideration." The site records that the entry states no delivery position; the department has not described the recommendation as "noted".

The tracker describes this as a long-term recommendation: systemic or cultural, with no single completion point.

What other bodies have found

In their own words. These do not change the delivery statement above.

●NHS England · 26 Jun 2026

Recommendations 24 and 25 (relevant to medical education settings)
The full text of these recommendations can be found in the Phase 2 Report (pp.267-268).
Supporting guidance
Where relevant to the NHS, these actions have been reflected in the NHS Premises Assurance Model (see entry 1 in Annex 1).

From: Nottingham maternity review findings on post-death care and key actions required following the Fuller Inquiry

Site note: NHS England's national system letter to NHS trusts and integrated care boards of 26 June 2026 (PRN02500). Its Annex 2 maps the NHS-relevant Fuller recommendations to named supporting guidance by number. The letter instructs trusts and records what NHS England has changed; it does not report that any recommendation is delivered. Neither the Board Assurance Statement returns it asks trusts for by 31 July 2026 nor the Premises Assurance Model submissions that closed on 8 September 2026 are published. Where the row carries an Annex 2 entry, it is the whole entry: the recommendations it covers, where their text is, and the guidance NHS England maps them to. An entry that only names guidance states no delivery position, and the site marks it noted.

Site note: The source names this recommendation by number. The source gives this passage once, for several recommendations. The same words are recorded on recommendations 24 to 25.

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