Consent to organ donation part 2: alternative modes of consent.
In the December 2009 issue of British Journal of Community Nursing Richard Griffith and Cassam Tengnah reviewed the system of consent for non-beating heart organ donation at the centre of the Human Tissue Act 2004. This article considers the benefits and risks of alternative systems of consent being proposed to overcome the United Kingdom's poor organ donation rate that is the worst in Western Europe.
Griffith
Richard
R
Health Law, School of Health Science, Swansea University. richard.griffith@swan.ac.uk
Tengnah
Cassam
C
D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D016743:Mental Competency; D013222:State Medicine; D020458:Third-Party Consent; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement; D006113:United Kingdom