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UK Transplant

UK Transplant (UKT) exists as a directorate of the special health authority NHS Blood and Transplant. Among its’ many responsibilities UKT manages the UK wide National Transplant Database; this database details patients who have received or are waiting for a transplant. UK Transplant also look after the National Organ Donor Register where details of those agreeing to donate after their death are held. UK Transplant are heavily involved in raising awareness of donation and improving organ donation rates through publicity and by funding initiatives throughout the wider NHS.

Transplant Coordinators are often situated within a local NHS authority though as a national service they are also professionally responsible to UK Transplant through the UKT Regional Management structure; clinical and professional guidance is available through the regional managers.

UK Transplants main responsibilities are:
  • managing the National Transplant Database which includes details of all donors and patients who are waiting for, or who have received a transplant
  • providing a 24hr service for the matching and allocation of donor organs and making the transport arrangements to get the organs to patients
  • maintaining the NHS Organ Donor Register
  • improving organ donation rates by funding initiatives in the wider NHS
  • contributing to the development of performance indicators, standards and protocols which guide the work of organ donation and transplantation
  • acting as a central point for information on transplant matters
  • providing central support to all transplant units in the UK and Republic of Ireland
  • auditing and analysing the results of all organ transplants in the UK and Republic of Ireland to improve patient care
  • raising public awareness of the importance of organ donation.

The UK Transplant web site can be accessed HERE. You can also find the site through our ‘Links’pages.
 

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