Advisory Groups
A number of special advisory groups bring together experts from a variety of fields to advance transplantation.
Each group meets twice yearly, except AARG and UKTAG which meet sporadically though the year. The advisory group chairmen serve for three years with the option of a further two years. All are free to co-opt members for specific aspects of their work and to form small working parties, as appropriate.
The procedures for organ donation, allocation, retrieval and transplantation are set and monitored by advisory groups which focus almost exclusively on issues to do with specific organs. These groups enable an exchange of views and information on practical and strategic issues and recommend changes, as necessary, to the nationally agreed protocols for allocating organs.
Minutes of Advisory Group meetings are available on-line once these have been agreed as factual and accurate by the Advisory Group members.
