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3,086 organ transplants were carried out, thanks to the generosity of 1,495 donors. 949 lives were saved in the UK through a heart, lung, liver or combined heart/lungs, liver/kidney, liver/pancreas or heart/kidney transplant. A total of 2,137 patients received a kidney, pancreas or combined kidney/pancreas transplant.
NHS Blood and Transplant is an executive special health authority of the United Kingdom's Department of Health and Social Care.It was established on 1 October 2005 to take over the responsibilities of two separate NHS agencies: UK Transplant (now renamed Organ Donation and Transplantation), founded by Dr. Geoffrey Tovey in 1972, and the National Blood Service (now renamed Blood Donation).
Elizabeth Ward (British campaigner) Elizabeth Despard Ward MBE ( née Wynd; 11 October 1926 – 20 July 2020) was a British healthcare campaigner known for pioneering organ donor cards and founding the charity Kidney Care UK. [1] [2] She helped raise £70 million for hospital renal units, including at Great Ormond Street Hospital. [3]
The technology scans images of organs to assess suitability for kidney and liver transplants.
Website. www .nihr .ac .uk. The National Institute for Health and Care Research ( NIHR) is the British government's major funder of clinical, public health, social care and translational research. [ 3] With a budget of over £1.2 billion in 2020–21, [ 4] its mission is to "improve the health and wealth of the nation through research". [ 5]
Anthony Nolan is a UK charity that works in the areas of leukaemia and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. It manages and recruits donors to the Anthony Nolan Register, which is part of an aligned registry that also includes the Welsh Bone Marrow Donor Registry, NHS Blood and Transplant 's British Bone Marrow Registry and Deutsche ...
Organ donation. Organ donation is the process when a person authorizes an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive, through a legal authorization for deceased donation made prior to death, or for deceased donations through the authorization by the legal next of kin .
The September event will see recipients and families of donors join a walk to the top of Snaefell. Organ donor families to join pink peaks challenge Skip to main content