The Insider

2006 Series

Nina Hobson

Martin Bell

KIDNEYS FOR SALE

In a personal polemic, Professor Nadey Hakim, World President, International College of Surgeons, examines the current kidney crisis in the UK.

Friday 16th February 7.30pm
Monday 19th February 1.55am (r)

He looks at why thousands of people are on dialysis waiting for a transplant, with no idea when or even if they might get a kidney.

He asks why we aren't doing more live transplants in the UK, given advances in surgical techniques and immunosuppressant drugs, and examines the dangers faced by people going abroad to buy a kidney on the black market.

He argues that the present system isn't working, and the only real way to stop patients going abroad for dangerous and illegal operations, or dying while they wait in this country, is to legalise the sale of human kidneys in the UK.

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Bring Back the Orphanage
Friday 9 March 2007

Author Phil Frampton was raised in a Barnado's Children's Home, and believes that the home gave him the stability to make a better start in life than the fostering system achieves for most children in its care today. With a shortage of 8,000 foster carers, too many children in foster care are frequently moved from pillar to post around the system, with each move invariably damaging the child emotionally and educationally.