BMJ 1994;309:55 (2 July)

Letters

Increasing the number of organ donations

EDITOR, - Richard Vautrey's findings confirm other evidence that many people are willing to be organ donors but either do not possess donor cards or do not carry them at all times.1 Potentially this represents a great loss to the transplantation programme. This is one of the reasons why the government is looking at the feasibility of a central computerised register of organ donors, which could be accessed by any hospital. One way of recording names on such a register would be for general practitioners to do it. If such a register was set up there would be no need for hospitals to contact general practitioners, as suggested by Vautrey: they would simply contact the computer centre. Any proposal of this kind would, of course, be the subject of consultation with the profession.

Another problem for the transplantation programme is the refusal of families to permit retrieval of organs, often, . . . [Full text of this article]


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