As Wales prepares to become the first country of the United Kingdom to introduce an opt-out system for organ donation, a doctor writing inThe BMJthis week, says support for such a system "is well intentioned but misguided." Adnan Sharif, a consultant nephrologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital i...
The government said that donating organs would remain a personal decision and that people would continue to be able to record their decision to opt out at any point.Gareth IacobucciThe BMJEULARRMD Open
摘要: The recent report of the UK government's Organ Donation Taskforce is in favour of continuing with the current organ donation system rather than changing to an opt-out system where people are assumed to be willing to donate. How did it reach this decision and is it correct?
Dr. Yiling Lin, also from Queen Mary University of London, added: "There are plans to launch an opt-out organ donation system in England, but what we show is that this system is unlikely to increase actual rates of organ donation or reduce veto rates, all it will do is increase the n...
Editor's Note: 20th May 2020 - the Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Bill passed into law on March 15th 2019 and came into effect on 20th May 2020. Adults in England are now considered potential donors unless they opt out or are excluded for other reasons. An opt-out system for organ ...
The majority of British Columbians want an opt-out system for organ donation. (BC Transplant) Nearly two-thirds of British Columbians want the organ donor system to be opt-out instead of opt-in, a new poll from Research Co. suggests. ...
Questioned by BILD whether opt-out legislation might spark popular fears that a mandatory organ donation system was the next step, Spahn said that such concerns would have to be addressed calmly by policymakers with "good arguments in a broad debate." The 38-year-old noted that he had persona...
In the UK, over 7,000 people are on the waiting list for an organ transplant and there are inequalities in need, access and waiting time for organs, with notable differences between minority ethnic groups. In May 2020, England changed the law and introduced a ‘soft’ opt-out system of ...
5Department of Cardiology & Cardiovascular Surgery, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar Purpose: Demand for an organ transplant is surpassing the number of organ donors and hence increasing waiting lists worldwide, compelling many countries to adopt an opt-out consent system for organ donation. O...
the Prospect of Wales Becoming the First Part of the UK to Change the Law on Organ Donation Has Moved a Step Closer. as an LCO on Presumed Consent Is Laid, Health Editor Madeleine Brindley Examines the Arguments for and against an Opt-Out System ...