Families encouraged to share organ donation wishes at Christmas
Families coming together at Christmas are being encouraged to talk about their organ donation wishes as an advert highlighting changes to the law next year hits TVs.
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NHS milestone reached for 1,000th living kidney transplant
The 1,000th transplant involving living kidney swap donors will take place this week.
Organ donation hits record high in Scotland but 550 are still on waiting list for transplant ops
MORE than half of Scots are now signed up as organ donors – a record high.
Investigation: Transplants should have given patients a new lease of life but, instead, donor’s organs give them deadly cancer
THE doctor was sitting on the edge of transplant patient Pauline Hunt’s hospital bed, his head in his hands.
Husband of transplant patient given cancer by new kidney reveals couple’s heartbreaking wedding day in hospital
THE partner of Pauline Hunt has told how he secretly planned the couple’s heartbreaking wedding after her devastating diagnosis.
Bereft mum describes the last, shattering days with her son and how she found some hope in the terrible heartache
IT is every parent’s worst nightmare, their child on life support and doctors without hope.
Desperate Scots dad turns to social media to look for a kidney donor
A DAD facing down acute renal failure has gone on Facebook to find a kidney donor.
The Honest Truth: You shouldn’t have grave concerns about donating your body to science
DUNEE University’s Dame Sue Black, Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology and Vivienne McGuire, Bequest Coordinator, tell Laura Smith the Honest Truth about why Scots are donating their body to medical science and why it’s vital for research
More than 30,000 Scots sign up as organ donors in 2017
MORE than 30,000 people in Scotland have joined the Organ Donor Register this year, new figures show.
First person in the UK to donate kidney to stranger reveals how she was considered ‘mad’ at the time
Donation of murder victim’s organs saves four lives and allows ‘generous soul’ to live on
THE family of a man who was brutally murdered have revealed his death saved four lives – after his organs were donated.