BBC NEWS | Health | Most back opt-out organ donation

BBC NEWS | Health | Most back opt-out organ donation


A quarter of the population is on the NHS Organ Donor Register.

A large majority of the population support the idea of presumed consent for organ donation, survey findings have suggested.

Two-thirds of more than 2,000 people surveyed by the British Medical Association said the UK should move to an opt-out system.

At present organs can only be taken from people who have actively chosen to be donors, and carry donor cards.

Every year hundreds of people die because of a shortage of donor organs.