Author Index - Philippa Taylor
Philippa Taylor was CMF Head of Public Policy and currently heads up the Care Leadership Programme
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Submission to the Dept of Health on the abolition of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (28/09/2012)
This submission from CMF raises concerns with the Dept of Health proposal to transfer functions from the HFEA and the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) to the Care Quality Commission, except...
Submission to the Welsh Government Draft Human Transplantation (Wales) Bill (10/09/2012)
The Welsh Government consulted on its draft Bill to introduce a system of 'presumed consent' for organ donation. This Bill will permit doctors to remove organs and tissue from any...
Review by Philippa Taylor CMF Head of Public Policy In June the BMA held its annual representative meeting, where a motion supporting the universal availability of non-directive counselling for women considering abortion was passed by an 'overwhelming majority' of members. (1,2) This is a small but significant step, recognising...
Submission to the GMC guidance on Personal beliefs and medical practice (13/06/2012)
This submission is a response from CMF to the GMC consultation on the draft of their 'explanatory guidance': Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice. The consultation on 'explanatory guidance' was part...
Submission to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on donor conception (16/05/2012)
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics issued a consultation on donor conception and whether parents of people conceived using donor eggs or sperm should choose to tell them about their genetic...
Submission to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on novel neurotechnologies (24/04/2012)
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics issued a consultation on the ethics of new types of technologies and devices that 'intervene' in the brain, such as brain-computer interfaces, deep brain stimulation,...
Submission to the GMC guidance on Personal beliefs and medical practice (17/04/2012)
This submission is a response to the GMC consultation on the redraft of their guidance: Personal Beliefs and Medical Practice . Following this initial consultation process, the GMC will issue...
Philippa Taylor considers the complexities of presumed consent. Plans are well underway in Wales to introduce legislation for an 'opt-out system' (otherwise known as 'presumed consent') for organ donation. This would permit doctors to remove organs from any dead patient, unless they had specifically registered a formal objection to it. ...
'Google Baby' The global business: A Channel 4 documentary in 2011, 'Google Baby', followed an Israeli entrepreneur's new fertility service. His customers select their preferred sperm and eggs online. He then ships the frozen embryos to India to be implanted in the wombs of local surrogates. After nine months, the...
Submission to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on the ethics of mitochondrial donation
(24/02/2012)
The bypassing of inherited mitochondrial abnormalities using donor eggs to create embryos free of the disorder is an advancing area of research (creating so-called 'three parent embryos'). The Nuffield Council...
