Publications
Please use this page to find shortcuts to our publications. They fall into the following four categories:
Each publication listed below can be accessed in one or more formats. The main link is normally to the web page. If a Word (.doc) or PDF version of a document is available for download the relevant icon will appear in the right hand column. Passing the cursor over the icon will usually identify the size of the file.
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Bulletin is the quarterly newsletter produced for everyone involved in organ transplantation and donation. Sectional pdf files are available in addition to one of the whole publication. |
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Transplant Activity reports activity for the previous financial year and is produced in separate versions for the UK and for the Republic of Ireland. |
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| Advisory Group papers document the discussions by the groups of experts brought together regularly to advance transplantation. |
Fact sheets |
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Organ donation - your questions answered is a 24 page leaflet which answers the most commonly asked questions about organ and tissue donation. |
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How to find us - address, location map and directions to our building on the edge of Bristol |
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The NHS Organ Donor Register - a history includes details of the launch of the Register in 1994, following a long campaign by a donor family. |
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Cornea transplants - the gift of sight gives facts and figures about cormea transplants. Over 2,200 people have their sight restored by cornea transplants every year. |
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Religious perspectives details the results obtained in 2006 from research commissioned to assess attitudes amongst south Asian and black communities towards organ donation. |
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Did you know? includes many of those little-known extra facts about transplantation. |
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Transplantation milestones from the early years of the 20th Century onwards. |
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Transplants save lives includes facts about the transplants carried out in the previous financial year. |
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The cost-effectiveness of transplantation which saves lives and money. |
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Posters and leaflets |
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| Eye donation - every year over 2,500 people have their sight restored through cornea transplants. People of all ages can donate eyes and about 65% of eye-only donors are over 60 years old. | |
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Can we count on you? provides information aimed at black people who are three times as likely as the general population to need a kidney transplant. |
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Can we count on you? provides information aimed at the south Asian community. Asian people are three times more likely than the general population to need a kidney transplant. Read the leaflet in English or download copies in Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Urdu and Bengali. |
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'Organ donation.The Gift of life' is a leaflet providing general information about the NHS Organ Donor Register in a range of different languages. |
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| Organ donation leaflet - English |
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| Organ donation leaflet - Italian |
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| Organ donation leaflet - Somali |
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| Organ donation leaflet - Greek |
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| Organ donation leaflet - Arabic |
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| Organ donation leaflet - Cantonese |
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| Organ donation leaflet - Polish |
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| Organ donation leaflet - Turkish |
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| Organ donation leaflet - Vietnamese |
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Paired living kidney donation - your questions answered |
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Altruistic living kidney donation - your questions answered |
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Could I be a living kidney donor? is a leaflet explaining how you can donate a kidney to a family member, friend or stranger. |
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Wall of Life ? this leaflet supports the Wall of Life campaign whereby people can show their support for organ donation by uploading their picture on the Wall of Life website, www.walloflife.org.uk. A registration form for the NHS Organ Donor Register is included in the leaflet. Read the leaflet in English or click the links below to download other language leaflets in PDF format:
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| Wall of Life leaflet - Polish |
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Religious leaflets |
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A series of leaflets outlining the main views of each faith and are a discussion tool for use with potential donor families in intensive care units. |
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| Organ donation and religious perspectives | |
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| Judaism and organ donation |
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| Christianity and organ donation |
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| Islam and organ donation |
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| Sikhism and organ donation |
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| Buddhism and organ donation |
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| Hindu Dharma and organ donation |
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Welsh leaflets |
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| Allwn i fod yn rhoddwr aren byw? | | |
| Rhoddi byw fel pâr – arennau | |
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| Rhoddi byw anhunanol – arennau | |
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| Rhoi organau a meinwe – atebion i’ch cwestiynau | |
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| Rhoi llygaid - Rhoi golwg yn rhodd | |
Policy and procedures |
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| Organ sharing schemes | ||
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Kidney
allocation is determined by the degree of matching between
donor and patient. |
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| Information for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratories |
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Minimum typing requirements for reporting donor and recipient HLA types | | |
| HLA Conversion Chart for Organ Allocation | |
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| National protocols standards and guidelines | ||
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Kidney
transplant list criteria for both adults and children
were agreed in February 2003. |
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