Who will get my donated organs or tissues?

Who will get my donated organs or tissues?

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...

The organ donor waiting list, which is held by the NHS UK Transplant, a lot of people think it's a list where when you get to the top you automatically get the organs but it doesn't work that way. It's the person who is in greatest need of the organs at that time and if the tissue typing matches and if the blood group matches, and this is how the person would get your organs, is by tissue typing and by blood grouping and by how much that person is in desperate need of that organ and the best match for that organ.