Three years ago, Gordon Brown backed allowing hospitals to take organs from dead patients without explicit consent. We want to make it easier for people to sign up when they apply for driving licences and encourage everyone to discuss their organ donation wishes with their loved ones.’Ĭritics said it could be the first step to compulsory organ donation. Public Health Minister Anne Milton said: ‘We know that 90 per cent of people have expressed interest in donating.
Sally Johnson, director of organ donation and transplantation at NHS Blood and Transplant, said: ‘Around 8,000 people are waiting for a transplant and around 1,000 people die each year while waiting or because they have become too ill and are removed from the list.’Ībout a million new donors register every year and around half come via the DVLA form. Nanny state: Answering the question regarding organ donation has been optional - until now
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