Researcher In The UK Recommends The ‘Opt Out’ System To Solve Donor Organ Shortage

A system of presumed consent for organ donation - where people have to opt out of donating their organs when they die - is the best way to tackle a growing waiting list for transplant. That is the opinion of Dr John Troyer, an expert in organ donation and the illegal trade of body parts, who has recently joined the University of Bath’s Centre for Death & Society. There are more than 7,500 patients in the UK currently on the waiting list for organ donations.

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Filed under: Transplants on November 3rd, 2008