NHS Organ Donation Register

NHS Organ Donation

NHS Organ Donation Register

Organ donation is giving an organ to help someone who needs a transplant.

Transplants can save or greatly enhance the lives of other people. But this relies on donors and their families agreeing to donate their organ. There are three different ways to donate. These are:

Brain stem death – This is where a person no longer has activity in their brain stem due to a severe brain injury.

Circulatory death –  Is the irreversible loss of function of the heart and lungs after a cardiac arrest from which the patient cannot or should not be resuscitated. It can also be the planned withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from a patient within the Intensive Care Unit or the Emergency Department.

living donation – Whilst you are still alive you can choose to donate a kidney, a small section of your liver, discarded bone from a hip or knee replacement and also your amniotic membrane (placenta).

Consent

We will only use organs from a donor with their consent or with their family’s consent after they die. You can give your consent by joining the NHS Organ Donor Register, or telling a relative or close friend about your decision to donate

You can register to donate here: https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/register-to-donate

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