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Current organ and tissue donation news.

  • graph depicting living donor transplants from 2014 - 2019
    05 Nov 2019 News

    Living Kidney Donation – The Exceptional Gift

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    In Scotland, latest statistics show that living kidney donor transplantation represents 38% of kidney transplant activity
  • image of first ever Scottish Muslim Imams event in Glasgow
    05 Nov 2019 News

    Exploring the Islamic Perspective on Organ Donation

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    Imams engaged to help raise awareness within Muslim communities
  • Public Health Minister Joe FitzPatrick
    12 Jun 2019 News

    Opt-out system for donation gets go-ahead

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    Human Tissue law passes Stage 3
  • Imagine of donor recipient Allan and donor Jennie.
    14 Mar 2019 News

    Altruistic donor and transplant recipient mark World Kidney Day

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  • living kidney donation logo
    10 Mar 2019 News

    Living Kidney Awareness Week 2019

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    Living kidney transplants have been performed in Scotland since 1960
  • organ donation scotland logo
    10 Mar 2019 News

    Living Kidney Awareness Week - Matthew's Story

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    Matthew Catlow was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in 2010, at 29 years old
  • Grant Thomson altruistic organ donor
    10 Mar 2019 News

    Living Kidney Donation Awareness Week - Grant's Story

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    Grant Thomson altruistically donated a kidney to a stranger in February 2017
  • altruistic donor John Fletcher and surgeon Gabriel Oniscu
    10 Mar 2019 News

    Tenth Anniversary of Altruistic Kidney Donation Marked by First Donor

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    The tenth anniversary of altruistic donation in Scotland was marked by one of the very first donors at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh on 11 March 2019
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