How are transplants organised?

How are transplants organised?

Sue Johnstone (Communications Manager) gives expert video advice on: How are transplants organised?; What organs can be transplanted?; Can I agree to donate some organs and not others? and more...

Transplants are organized by transplant coordinators. At the time of a potential donor becoming available the medical staff will contact the transplant coordinator who will come and talk to the next of kin. If the next of kin agree and if the donor has actually put their wishes onto the organ donor registers, that that is what their wishes actually are, then the transplant coordinators contact UK transplant which is the health authority and it goes on from there. The transplant coordinator, the recipient transplant coordinator will be contacted, and a recipient will be found for those organs. And the donor coordinator will stay with the families of the potential donor until the organs have been retrieved. And afterwards the donor coordinators keep in contact with the donor families and some of them become very life long friends.