Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 100849
Brain: Tumours
Tabled: 17 December 2025
Answered: 5 January 2026
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will review the arrangements governing families of patients' access to stored brain tumour tissue after the patient has died.
Answer
Dr Zubir AhmedThe Department has not made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a standardised consent process for National Health Service neurosurgical procedures involving tissue resection with specific consent for storage, disposal, and future use of ...
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