Information about transplantation
The Carrel Club website is primarily targeted at trainees in transplantation surgery rather than the general public. For information about organ donation and transplantation, members of the public are advised to visit the following sites:
British Transplantation Society
This site includes high quality public information about organ donation and transplantation in its clinical transplantation section; this section is written by experts and informs the visitor about the transplantation of specific organs, as well as organ donation and immunosuppression. There is also a section on ethics of transplantation including an archive of publications.
This website dedicated to organ donation in the United Kingdom is run by NHS Blood and Transplant, the body which administers the organ donation and allocation system in the UK. It includes information on how to become a donor and well as information on the use of transplanted organs and statistics on organ donation and transplantation in the UK.
These following patient groups' websites also contain useful public information:
- British Organ Donor Society
- Donor Family Network
- Live life then give life
- To Transplant and Beyond
- The Transplant Trust
- Transplant Sport UK
