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Get the facts about the organ donation process, funeral arrangements, faith and beliefs, the opt out system, family involvement and more. Have a medical condition? Are you a smoker, or are you unable to give blood? You may still be able to become an …
About organ donation
Organ donation is when you decide to give an organ to save or transform the life of someone else. You can donate some organs while you are alive, and this is called living organ donation. However, most organ and tissue donations come from people who have died.
Check registration - NHS Organ Donation
Check registration. To see if you have already registered with NHS Organ Donor Register or to check that your information and preferences in the register are up to date please contact us. Give us a call on 0300 123 23 23. For alternative contact methods please visit our contact us page.
Who can donate? - NHS Organ Donation
To donate organs after death, a person needs to die in hospital in specific circumstances. To add your name to the NHS Organ Donor Register you'll need to live in the UK, Channel Islands or Isle of Man. Specialist healthcare professionals decide in each individual case whether a person's organs and tissue are suitable for donation.
Helping you to decide - NHS Organ Donation
Helping you to decide. We understand that you may have questions about organ donation. We're here to help support your decision, and have provided a selection of resources to help make sure you get the information you need.
Surgery and recovery - NHS Organ Donation
The operation usually takes approximately two to three hours. When you wake up you may have a tube draining your urine (a urinary catheter) and a drip (a tube inserted into your arm through which the medical team can keep you well hydrated and give you pain killers as needed). You may also have a tube draining fluid from the main surgery area.
Become a living donor - NHS Organ Donation
The most commonly donated organ by a living person is a kidney. A healthy person can lead a normal life with only one functioning kidney and therefore they are able to donate the other to help someone in need of a kidney transplant. Part of a liver can also be transplanted from a living donor to help someone in need of a liver transplant.
Donating your kidney - NHS Organ Donation
Donating your kidney. A kidney transplant can transform the life of someone with kidney disease. Kidneys are the most commonly donated organs by living people, and about a third of all kidney transplants carried out in the UK are from living donors.
UK laws - NHS Organ Donation
Organ donation laws vary across different countries in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) and the Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. This page outlines the current legislative position for each of those areas, and the choices you can make ...
Talk to your loved ones - NHS Organ Donation
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. You can also register your decision on the NHS Organ Donor Register. If you don't want to donate. If you decide not to become an organ donor, you can still help your ...