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P2-26

HTA require anatomy adverse incidents reported as HTARIs

Fuller Inquiry · Fuller Inquiry Phase 2 Report · Issued 15 July 2025 · Addressed to: Human Tissue Authority

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

DeliveryHuman Tissue Authority says completed (Jul 2026)Department of Health and Social Care says in progress (Jul 2026)

Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry

●Inquiry recommendation

The Human Tissue Authority should change its guidance to require that relevant adverse incidents in the anatomy sector are formally reported as Human Tissue Authority Reportable Incidents (HTARIs).

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

Published evidence summary

AI-generated evidence summary

In July 2026, the Human Tissue Authority stated in its annual report that it had "successfully implemented" the recommendation to extend its reportable incident system to the anatomy sector (Human Tissue Authority, Jul 2026). In a written statement that same month, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Preet Kaur Gill reported that the authority had instructed mortuaries to review internal records from the last ten years, with findings due to Ministers by 16 October 2026 (Preet Kaur Gill, Jul 2026). The Department of Health and Social Care previously noted in a June 2026 dashboard update that formal guidance had been issued and the updated system went live on 1 December (Department of Health and Social Care, Jun 2026).

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

Government response

●Department of Health and Social Care · Accepted · 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

The Human Tissue Authority, in its role as regulator, has expanded the scope of its adverse events and reportable incidents system in the post-mortem sector to include the anatomy sector. It has drafted guidance to ensure that adverse incidents in the anatomy sector are routinely reported, and the updated reporting system was implemented on 1 December 2025.

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 Human Tissue Authority; the passage is the Department's account, not that body's.

Delivery

●Human Tissue Authority says completed · 16 Jul 2026

The HTA successfully implemented its recommendation (No. 26) to extend the HTARI incident reporting system to the Anatomy sector.

From: Human Tissue Authority Annual report and accounts 2025/26

Site note: The Human Tissue Authority's annual report and accounts 2025 to 2026, published 16 July 2026. This is the addressee body's own record of what it did about the recommendation addressed to it.

Site note: The source names this recommendation by number.

●Department of Health and Social Care says in progress · 15 Jul 2026

Immediate action has been taken by the Human Tissue Authority who has instructed all mortuaries to review internal records over the last 10 years to ensure all incidents have been logged and reported. The findings of this exercise will be reported to Ministers by 16 October 2026.

From: Government update on Progress in responding to the Fuller Inquiry Phase 2 report, Preet Kaur Gill, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health Innovation and Safety

Site note: Written ministerial statement HCWS261, made on 15 July 2026 by the Department of Health and Social Care. It gives no per-recommendation breakdown, and it says the Government "remains committed to providing a full response to Sir Jonathan Michael's report once the leadership period for Prime Minister has concluded". That full response had not been published when these rows were recorded.

Site note: The source does not name this recommendation by number. It is recorded here because it addresses the Human Tissue Authority incident reporting this recommendation is about.

Earlier statements on delivery (0)

●Department of Health and Social Care · 16 Jun 2026

The Human Tissue Authority has expanded the scope of its adverse events and reportable incidents systems in the Post-Mortem sector to include the Anatomy sector. The HTA has issued formal guidance to ensure that adverse incidents in the anatomy sector are routinely reported. The reporting system went live on 1 December.

From: Fuller Inquiry Recommendations Dashboard

Site note: The source names this recommendation by number. The dashboard says the Human Tissue Authority "has issued formal guidance to ensure that adverse incidents in the anatomy sector are routinely reported". The government's interim update of 16 December 2025, recorded on this recommendation as the government response, says it "has drafted guidance" in otherwise the same words. Issued and drafted are different claims; both are official, and the site records both and resolves neither.

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