BODY, Balsham, Cambridge, CB21 4DL. Tel: 01223 893636
Email: body@argonet.co.uk
This site covers topics on organ donation and transplantation, both in the UK and Worldwide. Your requests for topics you would like to see included are welcomed. Please send them to the email address above and Bookmark the URL of this homepage for future reference now. Thank you.
The BODY website address www.argonet.co.uk/body and email address body@argonet.co.uk are both still active addresses.
These addresses link to the default addresses: body.orpheusweb.co.uk (note body. replaces www.) and body@orpheusmail.co.uk
Unfortunately the domain addresses www.bodyuk.org and body@bodyuk.org are presently broken.
Latest update 9 February 2008:
It has become necessary to rebuild this BODY website. Until finished many links will not connect to the requested webpages.
Friends of BODY.
You may be a organ and tissue donor in the future but you can help immediately by assisting BODY to enable people to make informed and voluntary choices regarding organ and tissue donation.
Please select Friends
You can obtain a Donor Registration Form with Donor Card appended by phoning:
0845 60 60 400 (local call rate).
It is now possible to register using this phone number.
OR
You can now enter your name to join the NHS Organ Donor Register via the UK Transplant Homepage and select appropriate links.
It is very important to tell your family, close relatives and friends about your decision regarding organ and tissue donation. They will need to know to confirm your wishes. Likewise you will need to know their wishes in case you are asked about their wishes to be an organ/tissue donor.
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BODY - BRITISH ORGAN DONOR SOCIETY
British Organ Donor Society
RECOMMENDED LINKS:
Human Tissue Authority are responsible for the implementation of the The Human Tissue Act 2004 which came into action in April 2006 and is now fully operational. This is a new law regarding all organ, tissue and whole body donations for both transplantation and retention (research, education, training and exhibition).
UK Transplant UKT.
Please be aware that the details and statistics available from UKT are not just facts and figures. They represent many patients whose lives are at risk and are desperately in need of a transplant or those that are living or dead organ and corneal donors.
United Kingdom Transplant Co-ordinators Association UKTCA.
BODY and Southampton University Research papers regarding 'Organ and Tissue Donation: Exploring the needs of families'
BODY Educational Resources for Schools and Colleges and others wanting further information on organ and tissue donation and transplantation.
Donor Family Network Supports donor families and manages the annual National Transplant Church Service and also the Donor Quilt.
Transplants in Mind - TIM manage National Transplant Week. This website has much interesting information eg details about the Organ Donor Bus.
Transplant Patients' Trust of Great Britain
A charity which provides financial support for transplant patients and their families in exceptional circumstances.
Two other websites cover the British Transplant Games which are managed by Transplant Sports UK and
the World Transplant Games Federation.
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DIARY
7-16 March 2008 National Science and Engineering Week
Last year there were over 2,500 events around the UK
NEWS
Presumed Consent Opt Out.
BODY and the Donor Family Network representing the majority of their donor families do not support this initiative. Much of the evidence given in support of the supposition that such a change in the Law will increase organ donation is unsubstantiated.
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