The Authority
The Authority consists of a Chair and eleven Members who have been appointed by the Secretary of State for Health. They come from a variety of medical, scientific, legal, administrative and political backgrounds.
The Chair and six of the members are lay (i.e. without a professional interest in the area of human tissue). The remaining members are professionals drawn from some of the groups most directly affected by the Act. The Welsh Assembly and the Northern Ireland Office has each nominated one member.
The members of the authority are as follows:
- Baroness Diana Warwick (Chair)
- Prof Michael Banner
- Ms Jodi Berg
- Mr Brian Coulter
- Professor Susan Dilly
- Rosie Glazebrook
- Ms Pamela J Goldberg
- Suzanne McCarthy
- Professor Gurch Randhawa
- Dr Andrew Scott Reid
- Mr Keith Rigg
- Ms Catharine Seddon
The biographies for each Authority Member are available on the official website.
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