HM Inspector of Anatomy for Scotland: annual report 2024-2025

Conclusion

All departments are working well and to a very high standard. There is still however a potential problem in the five Scottish medical schools and in the two Scottish Surgical Royal Colleges meeting the increasing demand for body donors. At present, the demand is just being met but leaves little opportunity for expansion of university courses and surgical training.

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.

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 2025