Organ Donation

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Give the gift of life. Join the NHS Organ Donor Register.

Organ Donor Line 0300 123 23 23

www.organdonation.nhs.uk/ukt/Consent.do?campaign=1245

Right now more than 8,000 people in the UK need an organ transplant that could save or improve their life. But each year around 400 people die while waiting for a transplant.

If you want to help someone live after your death, sign up to the register now. Click here to find out more from the UK Transplant website.

Click here to listen to Big Buzzard and the Organ Grinders’ song Live Life then Give Life and read about the living donation behind the song.

Click here to listen to an interview with Ray Mackey about organ donations and the gift of life.

Click here to listen to an interview with Tim Statham considering the effect on organ donation of the Dutch ENDEMOL broadcast on 1 June 2007.

Click here to listen to an interview with Ms Jenny Dickinson about her experience and presumed consent.

Click here to listen to an interview with Tim Statham and a Kidney Patient about the lack of Transplants in Britain.

Organ Donation Task Force report - January 2008 (PDF, 640kB).

Wall of Life website.

Click here to listen to an interview and discussion featuring Prof Mark Cherry, Prof Nadey Hakim, and Ray Mackey on BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours, 4th March 2008.

Click here to listen to an interview with Tim Statham on BBC Radio 4’s World at One, 14th November 2008.

Click here to watch Tim Statham address the HTA debate on Organ Donation 15 June 2010

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