HM Inspector of Anatomy for Scotland: annual report 2023-2024

Conclusion

124. All departments are working well and to a very high standard. There is however a potential problem arising from the increasing number of medical students attending University with the resulting increased demand for bodies. This is already having an impact on the Surgical Colleges who are now having to cancel training courses due to medical schools having to meet their own needs first before that of the Colleges.

125. All staff should be commended for maintaining the high standard that they achieve with particular thanks to the Bequest Coordinators who have to deal with members of the public at a particularly difficult and sensitive time in their lives. They are invariably the first point of contact with a department and therefore fundamentally important in maintaining the success of the body donor programme.

126. Finally, I would like to thank the Scottish Government Burial and Cremation Team for their ongoing help and support over the past year.

Professor Gordon Findlater
HMIAS

4^th June 2024