Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 117702
Human Tissue
Tabled: 4 March 2026
Answered: 16 March 2026
Question
Chris Evans
Labour (Co-op) — Caerphilly
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 21 November 2025 to question 90178, what steps his Department is taking to develop standard operating procedures for the handling and freezing of fresh tissue samples.
Answer
Mrs Sharon HodgsonStandard operating procedures (SOPs) for the fresh-freezing of tissue examples have already been developed across pathology networks in England. It is, however, the responsibility of individual pathology services to maintain their own SOPs for the fresh-f...
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