AWAY from the coughing and the P45 prank, Theresa May last week promised a possible move that will save hundreds of lives every year.
She announced a consultation on changing the rules around organ donation which makes it easier for transplants without specific organ donor consent.
In Wales, consent is already presumed. In other words, if you don’t opt out, you’re in. In England, many people die waiting on the transplant list while healthy organs are not donated because people have to sign up specifically to say they’re happy for theirs to be used.
Last year, there were 5,411 people in England on the transplant list and around three die every day waiting for an organ transplant.
The consultation document is being brought out in the next few weeks and it can’t come soon enough. We don’t need our organs when we’re dead but others can live because of us.
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