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NHS Blood and Transplant is an executive special health authority of the United Kingdom's Department of Health and Social Care.It was established on 1 October 2005 to take over the responsibilities of two separate NHS agencies: UK Transplant (now renamed Organ Donation and Transplantation), founded by Dr. Geoffrey Tovey in 1972, [2] and the National Blood Service [3] (now renamed Blood Donation).
Hancock presented it as the key a radical overhaul of NHS technology. [2] Hunt claimed it would mark 'the death-knell of the 8am scramble for GP appointments that infuriates so many patients'. [3] It can also be used to access NHS 111, set patients' data sharing preferences, record organ donation preferences and end-of-life care preferences. [4]
NHSBT Blood Donation (previously the National Blood Service or NBS) is responsible for the collection and distribution of blood products within England. Other parts of the United Kingdom are served by the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service , the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service , and the Welsh Blood Service .
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The Human Tissue Authority (HTA) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom. [1] It regulates the removal, storage, use and disposal of human bodies, organs and tissue for a number of scheduled purposes such as research, transplantation, and education and training.
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Ward claimed that an opt-out system would save millions of pounds for the NHS: a kidney transplant costs half as much as a year of dialysis, and such a system would enable the 5,000 people awaiting the availability of kidneys for transplant to be matched with a suitable donor organ much sooner. [2]
In 1981, the kidney donor cards were changed to include other organs such as the heart, liver, cornea and pancreas. The wishes of the 15.1 million donors in the United Kingdom are recorded on the National Health Service (NHS) Organ Donor Register, set up in 1994.