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Organ removal guidelines

The Royal College of Pathologists has issued guidelines on information to, and consent from, relatives prior to organ removal and retention in postmortem examinations. This is in response to the revelations on widespread storage (2,000 hearts, 850 other organs) at the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, with details of others still emerging.

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