The number of people donating organs after death has increased by 50% in the last five years, but the NHS is calling for more to be done. Over the ...

An 83-year-old man has achieved a double by becoming the oldest living kidney donor in the UK and the oldest person in the country to give a kidney to...

Facebook and the NHS have teamed up to allow people to sign up for organ donation on the social network, which can be published to their timeline as a...

The head of a kidney charity has launched a stinging attack on the Government, saying it will miss a target to boost organ donor rates by 50%. Tim Sta...

Compulsory organ donation may seem somewhat extreme but every year a thousand people die waiting for an organ transplant. That ghastly number, the number of those who die needlessly, is only increasing. They die because others neglect to do the right thing. Negligence is a crime.

The NHS should consider paying for the funerals of organ donors to deal with a chronic shortage of organs, a report has suggested. There are curren...

PRESS ASSOCIATION - A dramatic account of how a donated organ for a dying liver patient was recovered from the wreck of a burning light aircraft has b...

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- People should be allowed to sell their kidneys for £28,000 to tackle a shortage of donors, a researcher has suggested. Sue Ra...

From Monday people will have to answer questions on organ donation before they can complete a driving licence application. A previously optional qu...