We welcome the launch of the world’s first WHO Collaborating Centre dedicated to liver disease
The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, Imperial College London and the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) today inaugurate the first WHO Collaborating Centre dedicated to liver disease, at an event at Imperial’s White City...
New report finds consumers left in the dark by failing alcohol labels
As part of the Alcohol Health Alliance, the British Liver Trust has supported the launch of a new report on alcohol labelling in Parliament. The analysis of more than 530 alcohol products is the biggest study of its kind ever conducted. It reveals that essential...
New Pilot Assessment and Recovery Centres could save hundreds of lives a year
An additional 200 liver transplants could be carried out per year, if 15 pilot Assessment and Recovery Centres (ARC) set up by NHS Blood and Transplant are successful. Under the pilot scheme donated organs that might not otherwise have been transplanted are...
A historic moment for liver health
On the 21st of May 2026, the 79th World Health Assembly voted to adopt a resolution on steatotic liver disease. Steatotic liver disease includes metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH),...