Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 117703
Human Tissue: Refrigeration
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 to question 90178, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a standardised approach to tissue freezing.
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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