Websites

British Medical Assocition
Report from the BMA from January 2004 highlighting the extent of the shortages in human tissue and organs.

Donor Story
A donor’s story documenting one man’s experience of donating a kidney to his father. The site discusses both his feelings and those of his family and has information for others in need of a transplant.

Institute of Child Health: Kidney Transplant Factsheet
Factsheet to help children and their families, discussing tests, medications and dialysis. Also has a section on how to deal with the emotional strain of a kidney condition of transplant.

Kidney Patient Guide
Comprehensive and easy-to-read guide to kidney transplants for patients, covering dialysis and how it will affect your life, diet, medication and the emotional effects of having a transplant.

Kidney Transplant Programme
The Kidney Transplant Program at USC University Hospital in Los Angeles is dedicated to providing comprehensive perioperative care to patients with chronic renal disease, including end-stage renal disease. This website has a range of information for patients.

Kidneywise
Kidneywise is for kidney patients, their families and carers and is here to provide you with support through life's ups and downs.

Saving Lives, Valuing Donors:  A Transplant Framework for England
A Department of Health document setting out the government’s key aims for organ and tissue transplantation over the next 10 years. Available to download from the website.

The Transplant Partnership
The aim of this group of professional bodies is to stimulate wide-ranging debate amongst health professionals, policy makers and the public and to campaign for a radical review of the organ donation system in the UK.

Transplant Living
Comprehensive US site with a wealth of information for donors, recipients and their families. The site covers all types of organ, from livers and kidneys to heart and lung transplants. If you have questions about any type of transplant, this site will probably have the answers.

Relevant news stories

BMA urges organ donation overhaul 
Guardian feature discussing the fact that the BMA are calling for a radical overhaul of the organ transplant system in the UK to save more lives.

Call for ‘opt out’ donor scheme
BBC news feature from 2002 discussing the Liberal Democrats’ suggestion that all adults should have to expressly ‘opt out’ of organ donation, rather than in.

Donor Day 2004
BBC feature raising awareness for Donor Day on 21 July 2004.

Fears over drop in organ donors
Guardian article from January 2004, discussing health officials fears about the drop in organ donors and the possibility of an ‘opt out’ process.

GP struck off for organ trading
Guardian article from 2002 regarding a GP in the UK illegally trafficking human organs.

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