Updates

Association of Anatomical Pathology Technology

19 December 2017
- From liquid burials to corpse compost: the eco-innovators finding new ways to dispose of the dead
12 December 2017
- People who donate their organs and tissue after they die help save thousands of lives in England each year
5 December 2017
- SynDaver synthetic humans
4 December 2017
- Queen’s Hospital trust earns recognition from NHS England for ‘transformative’ end of life care
30 November 2017
- NHS stillbirths and serious brain injuries in birth to be independently investigated
24 November 2017
- Mortuary Failings are rare in the UK
- Wales scraps charges to bury or cremate children
15 November 2017
- The driver's view: 'The memory of a rail suicide never leaves you'
8 November 2017
- Leicester hospitals unveil free CT scan post-mortems
23 October 2017
- Child Bereavement UK launches TV and digital campaign
18 October 2017
- The regulation of medical associate professions in the UK
6 October 2017
- Government announces consultation on organ donation opt-out system
4 October 2017
- England to consider optout organ donation
28 September 2017
- Scientists identify dengue antibody that protects against Zika
22 September 2017
- Medical Examiner/Biomedical Scientist wins CPD Award
15 September 2017
- Belfast scientists design flexible organic battery
13 September 2017
- Changes to the UK’s system of death investigation must improve the service and increase awareness of its value
11 September 2017
- The Good Funeral Awards 2017 Winners
8 September 2017
- Girl's donated organs help a record eight people
- Scottish Death Certification Review Service Annual Report: 2016–2017
6 September 2017
- Newman Brothers Coffin Works
1 September 2017
- Death-registering delays 'rise by 70%'
31 August 2017
- Talking to Children who are Bereaved
- A Light in the Darkness
22 August 2017
- Science Council August update
- Guidance on consent for transplantation research where donors are deceased
18 August 2017
- Risks posed by dead bodies after disasters
3 August 2017
- National Bereavement Care Pathway to be piloted at 11 sites
2 August 2017
- What is an itai hoteru?
- Oral bacteria may help forensic scientists estimate time since death
10 July 2017
- The painstaking task of naming Grenfell's victims
5 July 2017
- Hospital porters receive bereavement training as part of award-winning scheme
3 July 2017
- Opt-out organ donation system in Scotland planned
26 June 2017
- 'I kept my daughter's body at home for three weeks'
20 June 2017
- Pacemakers and other cardiac devices can help solve forensic cases
13 June 2017
- I’m an emergency planner. Manchester shows we need new ways to heal
12 June 2017
- In the Company of Death
8 June 2017
- Are they dead yet? Experts come together to define the exact moment we die
7 June 2017
- In English autopsy study, heart imaging has 92% accuracy finding cause of death
25 May 2017
- Digital autopsies should be standard for probable natural deaths, says study
22 May 2017
- Dissolving the dead: A radical alternative to burial and cremation
17 May 2017
- Reporting of global death statistics improving
- Does the UK need a Body Farm (event)
11 May 2017
- 'I kept my daughter in her bed for 11 days after she died'
- Modern attitudes to death, bereavement and funeral planning
10 May 2017
- Scotland's first inspector of funeral directors has been appointed by the Scottish Government
24 April 2017
- ‘Who’ is the NHS?
21 April 2017
- Probate fees: Planned increase scrapped ahead of election
20 April 2017
- Post-mortem molecular testing
11 April 2017
- In the late 19th century London was gripped with fear as a series of unsolved murders
- Funeral directors will work with Scottish Government to introduce regulation
- Burial and cremation bill passed by Scottish Parliament
4 April 2017
- Medical examiners delayed until 2019
27 March 2017
- Behind the scenes at Queens Hospital Romford
- Science Council appoints new Chair
20 March 2017
- Life, Death (and the Rest)
17 March 2017
- CSO Knowledge Transfer Partnership Programme for Leaders in Healthcare Science
16 March 2017
- Doing death differently: today's funerals are not like they used to be
9 March 2017
- The Anatomy of Facial Expression (workshop)
1 March 2017
- Hundreds of criminals have cases reviewed after forensic lab 'manipulation'
28 February 2017
- Bereavement care in the UK: variability in resources and approaches
23 February 2017
- Birmingham Children's Hospital unveils £1m bereavement centre
20 February 2017
- Mystery over male Black Death victims found buried hand in hand
16 February 2017
- How Do We Live with Death? Weekend Pass
15 February 2017
- Priest says funeral delays are causing issues across North Ayrshire and more staff are needed
24 January 2017
- NHS pathology labs are ripe for privatisation and cuts
- Europe’s first taphonomical cemetery
18 January 2017
- Woman dies from infection resistant to all available antibiotics
17 January 2017
- Long quest to understand these bodies without identities
- DWP overhauls bereavement support
- Buried at home when you die
3 January 2017
- France introduces opt-out policy on organ donation

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