If you live in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, you can nominate up to two representatives to make the final decision about organ donation on your behalf. If you die in circumstances where donation is possible, your appointed representative s will be asked if your organs should be donated.
Nominate a representative online. Alternatively, call our contact centre on 23 23 and one of our team will arrange to send the form by post. Each year, hundreds of opportunities for transplants are missed because families aren't sure what to do. Your family will always be consulted about whether you wanted to be an organ donor or not, and clinicians will never proceed with organ donation if your family or loved ones object.
If you want to be an organ donor after you die, it's really important that you talk to your loved ones and make sure they understand and support your organ donation decision. If you decide not to become an organ donor, you can still help your family through a difficult time by talking to them about your organ donation decision now, and making sure they know what you want.
Get tips on how to talk to your loved ones about organ donation. Get more information about how consent is established. Many people feel uncomfortable thinking about cornea donation, but the reality is that it can mean the gift of sight to someone desperately in need of a transplant. Get the facts about cornea donation here.
All the major religions and belief systems in the UK are open to the principles of organ donation and transplantation and accept that organ donation is an individual choice. We understand that you may have questions about whether your faith or beliefs affect your ability to become an organ donor.
We've worked with faith leaders and communities to build trust, raise awareness, explore questions around organ and tissue donation, and discuss how organ donation can proceed in line with faith or beliefs. Get information about how different faith and belief systems view organ donation here.
W hen you register as an organ donor, you have the opportunity to say whether or not you would like the NHS to speak to your loved ones about how organ donation can go ahead in line with your faith or belief system. This is an optional part of the registration process, but any response you give will be part of your NHS Organ Donor Register record.
Our specialist nurses will respect the decision recorded on the NHS Organ Donor Register and will discuss what this means with your family as part of end-of-life care conversations.
When you register your organ donation decision, you may provide information about your religion and ethnicity within the additional information section. It is not stored against your registration. If you register a decision to donate some or all of your organs, and also state that you would like the NHS to speak to your family, and anyone else appropriate, about how organ donation can go ahead in line with your faith or beliefs, this information will be recorded against your registration.
This information will be available to our specialist nurses, to enable the conversation about your requirements to take place with your family. The specialist nurses will not see any information about what religion or belief system you belong to, they will only see whether or not you wish for the NHS to speak to your family about how organ donation can go ahead in line with your faith or belief system.
If you have already recorded a donation decision, but haven't recorded any information about whether or not you would like the NHS to speak to your family about how organ donation can go ahead in line with your faith or beliefs, you can still do so.
Our specialist nurses always speak to your family to see if there are considerations around your faith, beliefs or culture with respect to funeral plans. The surgical incisions are carefully dressed after the surgery and any end of life care wishes in relation to the washing and dressing of the body are respected. After donation, the body is always returned to the family of the deceased in the same way as any death in a hospital where donation has not taken place.
Families are given the opportunity to spend time with their loved one after the operation if they wish. The body is clothed for burial, so there are no visible signs of organ or tissue donation. The operation site is covered with a white surgical dressing like any other abdominal surgery dressing. NHSBT uses cookies which are essential for the site to work. We also use non-essential cookies to help us improve our services, any data collected is anonymised.
By continuing to use this website you agree to our use of cookies. Read more about our cookies. Marvin says. Once a match is found, the transplant team gets to work, quickly transporting organs to a hospital close to the recipient. The transplant itself is typically done within 24 hours. Recipients of new organs receive follow-up care for life after their transplant. The goal is to identify any potential changes in organ function or overall health and ensure a long healthy life.
If you have a driver's license or state identification card, consider adding the donor designation to your record. Insurance or the people who receive the organ donation pay those costs. You may not sell your organs.
People who buy or sell organs may face prison sentences and fines. One reason Congress made this law was to make sure rich people do not unfairly receive donated organs and tissues. It bases matching decisions on things like blood type, time spent waiting, and geographic location.
In the U. Get a list of the living donation steps you need to take. The number of people waiting for organs changes every day. The number of people who need a lifesaving transplant continues to go up faster than the number of available organs.
More than half of all people on the transplant waiting list are from a racial or ethnic minority group. Some diseases that cause end-stage organ failure are more common in these groups of people. Native Americans are four times more likely than whites to suffer from diabetes. An organ transplant is sometimes the best — or only — option for saving a life.
It was so freeing. See Hayley's Story. Organ Donation FAQ. We answer frequently asked questions FAQ about organ donation and transplantation. Is there an age limit? Do you have to be a U. If I have an illness, can I still donate? Can I be an organ and tissue donor and donate my body to medical science? In the case of brain death, the doctors start to recover the organs by clamping the circulatory system to stop the ventilator from pumping blood around the body.
In the case of cardiac death, they remove the ventilator and wait until the heart stops beating, which can take anywhere from about a half hour to two hours, then an additional five minutes to ensure the donor's heart doesn't spontaneously restart, Mekesa said.
The surgeons may decide not to recover the organs if it takes too long for the heart to stop and the other organs begin to die. For both types of organ donors, the surgeons then drain the donor's organs of blood, refill them with a cold preservation solution, and remove the organs. The surgeons fly the organs back to the recipients and begin the transplantation. They must act quickly; the heart and lungs can last 4 to 6 hours outside the body, the pancreas 12 to 24 hours, the liver up to 24 hours and the kidneys 48 to 72 hours, according to the Health Resources and Services Administration HRSA.
Meanwhile, the donor's body, with organs removed, is prepared for a funeral or other memorial service. Organ donation saves lives, but not enough. Each day, 20 people die waiting for a transplant in the U. Even those who have signed up may run into issues with donation if they haven't made their wishes clear to their family.
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