Year-round organ donations ‘a challenge’

The Department of Health continues to develop proposals for an opt-out system of consent for organ donation, Gary Culliton reports in his latest Clinical Update. Communication is key to making organ donation — in appropriate circumstances — the norm when people pass away Investment has been made in enhancing the national organ procurement service and in implementing new regulations for quality and safety. Key organ donation staff were employed for the first time in 2015 in each of the hospital groups around the country. Transplants to the end of February this year have been described as “very encouraging”, with 58…