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Brown: we may change organ law

Updated on 17 November 2008

By Channel 4 News

The prime minister says he will not rule out a further change in the law on organ donation.

Gordon Brown was speaking after today's rejection by the UK Organ Donation Taskforce of the idea of presumed consent.

Under the presumed consent system, everyone would become an organ donor unless they opted out of the system.

The UK has one of Europe's lowest rates of organ donation.



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