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The government has launched a review that will look for ways to cut the costs of regulating and approving research into human embryos and other tissues.
The Department of Health announced the review after deciding not to axe two health regulators that it had planned to disband as part of a money-saving "bonfire of the quangos".
The functions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) and the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) were to have been absorbed by the Care Quality Commission, the NHS regulator.
But in a consultation last summer, expert organisations including the British Medical Association and the Wellcome Trust argued against the plans, forcing a reversal.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jan/25/two-health-regulators-spared-axe
The Department of Health announced the review after deciding not to axe two health regulators that it had planned to disband as part of a money-saving "bonfire of the quangos".
The functions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) and the Human Tissue Authority (HTA) were to have been absorbed by the Care Quality Commission, the NHS regulator.
But in a consultation last summer, expert organisations including the British Medical Association and the Wellcome Trust argued against the plans, forcing a reversal.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jan/25/two-health-regulators-spared-axe