title: Regulation before the HFEA.
abstract: As a result of the birth of Louise Brown, the Government, in 1982 set up the committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology (The Warnock Committee). This committee made a number of recommendations including one that recommended the setting up of a body to regulate these procedures. The Medical Research Council and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in the interim set up a voluntary body to regulate the centres doing IVF. This was called the Voluntary Licensing Authority (VLA) for Human in-vitro Fertilisation and Embryology. Centres were visited and licensed. This body regulated the centres until the statutory body the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) was formed in 1990.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Glascow Royal Maternity Hospital, Glasgow, UK.
authors.forename: Malcolm
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Macnaughton
mesh_terms: D004626:Embryology / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006113:United Kingdom