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• Health and Safety Commission (HSC) [Search]
  Protects everyone in Great Britain against risks to health or safety arising out of work activities; to conduct and sponsor research; promote training; provide an information and advisory service; and submit proposals for new or revised regulations and approved codes of practice
• Health and Safety Executive (HSE) [Search]
  Helps the Health and Safety Commission ensure that risks to people's health and safety from work activities are properly controlled
• Health Protection Agency [Search]
  An organisation covering England and Wales dedicated to protecting people’s health by providing an integrated approach to health protection and reducing the impact of infectious diseases, poisons, chemicals, biological, and radiation hazards
• Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) [Search]
  A statutory body which regulates, licenses and collects data on fertility treatments such as IVF and donor insemination, as well as human embryo research
• Human Genetics Commission [Search]
  UK Government's advisory body on how new developments in human genetics will impact on people and on health care
• Institute of Medicine, Law & Bioethics [Search]
  A collaboration between the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester
• Medical Devices Agency (MDA) [Search]
  An executive agency of the Department of Health for ensuring that medical devices meet appropriate standards of safety, quality and performance
• Medicines Control Agency (MCA) [Search]
  An executive agency of the Department of Health safeguarding public health by ensuring that medicines meet appropriate standards of safety, quality and efficacy
• Medico-Legal Society [Search]
  Promotes Medico-Legal knowledge in all its aspects. It publishes the Medico-Legal Journal
• Mental Health Act [Search]
  Comprehensive guide of the Mental Health Act. Maintained by Nigel Turner (On HyperGUIDE)
• Mental Health Act & Mental Health Law [Search]
  A Comprehensive guide to the Mental Health Act of 1983 and related matters (on Markwalton.net)
• Mental Health Lawyers [Search]
  Contains mental health service inquiry guidelines, articles and reports, conference and training materials, mental health law, ethics and public policy issues and international resources
• Regulations [Search]
  Contains laws and regulations related to food. Includes European regulation on this issue (On Food Standards Agency)
• UK Biotechnology Regulatory Atlas [Search]
  Presents the framework of biotechnology regulation, including both genetic modification and wider applications to human health, agriculture and environmental sustainability