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Professor Emma Cave's Recognition (10)

Chair of Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Group on Stem Cell-Based Embryo Models
2024

Description The Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCOB) has started a rapid review project to assess and advise on the ethical and regulatory issues raised by research using human stem cell-based embryo models
Affiliated Organisations Nuffield Council on Bioethics
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences
URL https://www.nuffieldbioethics.org/publications/stem-cell-based-embryo-models

Member of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry Ethics Advisory Group
2023

Description The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has announced the creation of an independent Ethics Advisory Group to ensure its UK-wide listening exercise, Every Story Matters, maintains the highest ethical standards.

The Group, with expertise in social research ethics and practice, provides an independent review of the design and approach of Every Story Matters and is chaired by David Archard, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast.
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences
URL https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/news/uk-covid-19-inquiry-announces-ethics-advisory-group-for-every-story-matters/

Core member of the Health and Social Care Committee's Expert Panel
2022

Description The Health and Social Care Committee is a Select Committee of the House of Commons. It has established an Expert Panel to support its work by issuing independent evaluations on specific areas such as Digital Transformation in the NHS (2022) and Pharmacy Services (2023). I am one of the core members, appointed in 2022. For each evaluation additional members with specific expertise join the panel.
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences
URL https://ukparliament.shorthandstories.com/health-and-social-care-committee-expert-panel/index.html

Chair of the General Medical Council's Good Medical Practice Advisory Forum
2021 - 2023

Description The GMC is the independent regulator for medical professionals. The GMC's core guidance, Good Medical Practice, sets out the standards of patient care and professional behaviour expected of all medical professionals registered with the GMC.

GMP was last reviewed in 2013. To help the GMC review GMP, an advisory forum was set up comprising 12 experts from outside of the GMC. We met several times over the review period to guide the GMC on specific aspects of the review. A public consultation was held in 2022 and then the new guidance was published in 2023, coming into force in 2024.
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences
URL https://www.gmc-uk.org/ethical-guidance/good-medical-practice-review

Member of the Cass Review Assurance Group
2021 - 2024

Description The Independent review of gender identity services for children and young people (Cass Review) is chaired by Dr Hilary Cass. The aim of the Cass Review is to ensure that children and young people who are questioning their gender identity or experiencing gender dysphoria, and who need support from the NHS, receive a high standard of care that meets their needs and is safe, holistic and effective.

The Assurance group was established to provide expert advice and challenge about the approach and processes used to conduct the review, and to ensure that the Review is conducted in accordance with its terms of reference. The Assurance Group is strictly focused on the governance of the Review and has not been established to inform the outcome and recommendations.
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences
URL https://cass.independent-review.uk/about-the-review/assurance-group/

Co-Convenor of Medical Ethics Group report to the Infected Blood Inquiry
2020 - 2023

Description The Infected Blood Inquiry is an independent public statutory Inquiry established to examine the circumstances in which men, women and children treated by national Health Services in the United Kingdom were given infected blood and infected blood products, in particular since 1970.

The 130 pp Medical Ethics expert report was published in April 2020. It discusses the ethical principles that should govern and inform clinical decision-making. It was commissioned primarily to inform the Inquiry’s questioning of clinicians in future hearings.

The report is based on letters of instruction given to the Group by the Inquiry which had input from core participants. Many of the questions and responses relate to general medical ethics and are not necessarily specific to issues of infected blood and blood products, hepatitis, HIV or blood and bleeding disorders.
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences
URL https://www.infectedbloodinquiry.org.uk/evidence/medical-ethics-group-report

Member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and Deputy Chair of the Statutory Approvals Committee
2018 - 2021

Description The HFEA is the UK’s independent regulator of fertility treatment and research using human embryos. A world-class expert organisation in the fertility sector, the HFEA was the first statutory body of this type in the world.
The Statutory Approvals Committee decides what conditions can be tested for using a type of embryo screening called Pre-implantation genetic testing for monogenic disorders (PGT-M) and considers applications for mitochondrial donation treatment and Human Leucocyte Antigen (HLA) tissue typing. It also issues ‘special directions’, which are rules we can issue to clinics to govern how they import or export sperm, eggs, or embryos or use a new fertility treatment or technique.
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences
URL https://www.hfea.gov.uk/

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority
2017