New Dutch law to make all adults organ donors unless they opt out
CNN
There are about 1,100 people waiting for organ donation in the Netherlands, according to Jeantine Reiger, communications manager for the Dutch Transplant Foundation. The law is also meant to put less pressure on family members to decide the fate of …
Netherlands passes bill introducing opt-out organ donationThe Independent
Every Adult in This Country Is Now an Organ Donor Unless They Opt OutTIME
Dutch senate votes in favour of ‘yes unless’ organ donor systemDutchNews.nl
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New Dutch law to make all adults organ donors unless they opt out
CNN
There are about 1,100 people waiting for organ donation in the Netherlands, according to Jeantine Reiger, communications manager for the Dutch Transplant Foundation. The law is also meant to put less pressure on family members to decide the fate of …
Netherlands passes bill introducing opt-out organ donationThe Independent
Every Adult in This Country Is Now an Organ Donor Unless They Opt OutTIME
Dutch senate votes in favour of ‘yes unless’ organ donor systemDutchNews.nl
Deutsche Welle –IamExpat.nl
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Every Adult in This Country Is Now an Organ Donor Unless They Opt Out
TIME
(THE HAGUE, Netherlands) — Senators in the Netherlands approved a new law Tuesday that makes all Dutch adults potential organ donors unless they opt out. The law narrowly passed in the upper house of the Dutch parliament. The lower house last year …
New Dutch law to make all adults organ donors unless they opt outCNN
Netherlands passes bill introducing opt-out organ donationThe Independent
New Dutch organ donation law will apply to everyone officially registered in NLDutchNews.nl
Deutsche Welle –IamExpat.nl
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Patients could have sole decision over organ donation upon death
The Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporter
Keith Rigg, consultant transplant surgeon at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, said the consultation announcement from Theresa May in October last year came “out of the blue”, and said it might have been better to wait for results from a …

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Organ donation: The light within the darkness
Big Issue
Hospital staff made it clear to her parents that they did not have to go ahead with the organ donation, despite Georgi having registered. “They said we could contest it and then they added, ‘… but we need these.’ We accepted it straight away,” says …

Jeremy Corbyn urges Labour MPs to back ‘opt-out’ organ donation …
Birmingham Live
Labour leader throws his weight behind calls for ‘presumed consent’ laws to make more organs available and save hundreds of lives.

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Watch: Moonpig and NHS Blood & Transplant focus on organ donation for Valentine’s
PRWeek
Examples include: “I only have eyes for you…. unless they get donated to someone who needs them – which is also cool” and “Urine my heart, urine my soul… but one day my kidney may be in someone else”. Brands2 Life said it is a conversation that …

Would you support an opt-out organ donor system?
ITV News
Islanders in Jersey could automatically be signed up to the organ donation register, if plans for an ‘opt-out system’ get the go ahead. The Minister for Health and Social Services, Senator Andrew Green, is working with members of the Health and Social …

Opioid deaths contribute to record-rise of organ donations
FOX 46 Charlotte
CHARLOTTE, NC (FOX 46 WJZY) – A record amount of organ donations are being seen across the country due to the opioid epidemic. “The Carolinas are basically mirroring the national trend,” Lifeshare Of The Carolinas’ Debbie Gibbs said. Lifeshare said …