Organ Donation Taskforce - First Taskforce Report

First Taskforce Report

The ODTF published its first report ‘Organs for Transplants’ on 16 January 2008.

In the report, the Taskforce makes 14 recommendations to the Government, which could see a 50 per cent increase in organ donation in the UK within five years - resulting in an additional 1,200 transplants a year and saving thousands of lives. The report proposes a radical shift from existing arrangements for the UK’s transplantation system. Together with other measures to improve donor coordination services this could result in a 10% increase in the consent rate for donation (currently at 60%).

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