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Our specialist organ donation team support families and transform the lives of our organ donation recipients.
- Address: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital,
What we do
Organs that can be donated after death include the heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, pancreas and small bowel. Tissue such as skin, bone, heart valves and corneas can also be used to help others.
The subject of organ donation is extremely emotive and a difficult one to consider.
We have specialist nurses for organ donation and a dedicated End of Life Care team who can support you and help answer your questions.
We have an organ donation committee that fully supports organ and tissue donation.
Links and resources
Being an organ donor and tissue donor is a generous decision that saves lives.
Transplants can save or enhance the lives of other people, but this relies on donors and their families agreeing to donate their organ or tissue.
One donor can save or transform up to nine lives through organ donation and transform even more by donating tissue.
Everyone can join the NHS Organ Donor Register regardless of age, as long as they are:
- legally capable of making the decision, and
- live in the UK.
Having a medical condition will not usually prevent you from becoming an organ or tissue donor.
Organ donation law in England has changed
Since 2020, all adults in England have been considered to have agreed to be an organ donor when they die unless they have recorded a decision not to donate or are in one of the excluded groups. However, you still have a choice whether or not you wish to become a donor.
Please record your decision on the NHS Organ Donor Register and, most importantly, tell your family and friends what you have decided.
More information about organ and tissue donation
The Human Tissue Authority has information about body, organ and tissue donation.
NHS Blood and Transplant has information about tissue donation.
NHS organ donation explains what organ and tissue donation involves, who you could help and what choices you can make.
You can register your decision online or call the organ donor line on 0300 123 23 23 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week).