In 2008, the UK's health ministers accepted the recommendations of the Organ Donation Taskforce.
In 2008, the UK's health ministers accepted recommendations of the Organ Donation Taskforce on increasing donations.
She is an advocate of organ donation and travels to deliver speeches about her experience.
They say that the government's efforts to educate the public on organ donation have been inadequate.
Mrs Taylor backs the Welsh government's plans change organ donation in Wales to an "opt-out" system.
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Health Minister Edwin Poots said he recognised that views on organ donation were "personal and emotive".
Others worry about religious prohibitions (in fact, all the main faiths support organ donation).
The Governor called State Senator Alquist, who he knew to be a long time advocate for organ donation.
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He will also take charge of a big piece of legislation to change the law on organ donation.
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Ministers tabled the Human Transplantation (Wales) Bill in December 2012 to introduce presumed consent in organ donation.
Now in remission, Carla and her husband founded the Carla Hill Breast Cancer and Organ Donation Awareness Fund.
Organ donor organisations say the family often refuses a request for organ donation because they are too emotionally involved.
For this reason, it is important that organ donation never becomes the only way to pay for one's funeral.
If that bill is passed, an opt-out system for organ donation could become law around the beginning of 2015.
We hope this policy making by urban legend trend doesn't spread to other areas, such as organ donation.
Seven years ago it was languishing behind many other regions in organ donation.
Stewart also sits on the 22-member board of Donate Life America, a national advocacy group that promotes organ donation.
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He hopes the changes will bring about a cultural shift in which organ donation is more widely talked about.
Both Barry and Elizabeth are passionately in favour of organ donation but just as strongly opposed to presumed consent.
My parents, Maureen and Charlie, were asked if they would consider organ donation.
Some therefore questioned the whole point of expressing a wish on organ donation.
"The results were quite good, but unfortunately we were still dependent" on organ donation, which can take months, Macchiarini said.
Health Minister Edwina Hart also attended the committee to provide an update on the presumed consent consultation for organ donation.
Opinion is even divided among donor families, reflecting the often intensely personal nature of views around organ donation for transplant.
Public Health Minister Michael Matheson said that Ms Bell's story was a "very real example" of how important organ donation was.
An assembly government spokesman said ministers believed the organ donation scheme "primarily relates to the field of health and health services".
Deepak Mahtani is from the organisation Transplants in Mind, which works to increase public awareness of the benefits of organ donation.
The group was set up in February 2001 to provide advice to the Scottish Executive on organ donation and transplantation issues.
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