Clause 3 - ''Appropriate consent'': adults
Human Tissue Bill
3:45 pm
Dr Andrew Murrison (Westbury, Conservative)
I am grateful to the Minister and am sure that she consulted the Royal College of Nursing as part of her consultation exercise. It is important to put on record the strong feeling of the RCN against presumed consent. The findings of its conference suggested that more resources might be dedicated towards nurses, who tend to be at the front line in discussion of sensitive issues with the bereaved. Would she agree that that is likely to increase the harvest of organs and that the RCN is right to oppose presumed consent?