Give and Let Live, Facts about tissue donation

Where to donate locally

Most people who join the NHS Organ Donor Register choose to donate all their organs and tissue.
After we die, our skin, bone, tendons, heart valves and corneas can all be used to save or improve other people’s lives.
The tissue donated by one donor can help 50 or more different patients.
After the London tube bombings in July 2005, a lot of donated skin was needed to treat patients. This resulted in stocks of donated skin becoming low.
Every year over 10,000 bone transplants are performed in the UK.
The first successful operation to transplant a cornea (part of the eye) was carried out more than 100 years ago.
Each year about 800 heart valve transplants are performed.
You can donate tissue even if you don’t die in hospital so many more of us could help in this way.