Plans to save hundreds of lives by making everyone in England a potential organ donor could fail because hospitals are so short of transplant surgeons and specialist nurses, the NHS’s own analysis of the policy has revealed.
Lives could be lost because teams of organ retrieval specialists are already under “extreme stress†and understaffed transplant centres are struggling to keep up with existing demand, according to NHS Blood and Transplant’s(NHSBT) impact assessment of switching to a system of presumed consent.
The 18-page analysis also reveals that:
t is estimated that switching to presumed consent will yield about 100 extra donors per year and another 230 transplants taking place, the document says. Although 500,000 people a year die in the UK, only 5,000 of them die in circumstances where their organs can be retrieved and used, NHSBT said. More
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