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Organ Donation Week 2021

Campaigns
Organ Donation Week 2021

In support of Organ Donation week this year, Live Life Give Life and the Orgamites are taking the power of colouring to 18 children's hospitals. There are 192 children in the UK waiting for an organ...
Life Stories
A tribute to transplant nurses

The bonds I have created with my transplant nurses, last to this day, when I have a transplant clinic appointment it is a joy to go and visit the ward.
Life Stories
Celebrating Diane Martin, receptionist at Freeman Hospital

Diane is one of a kind, the friendliest receptionist you will ever meet, waiting ready with a smile and to ask how you are. She is medicine when you’re feeling fed up, ready with hugs when...
Life Stories
Sarah knew she would be the one to give her brother a lifesaving kidney

From that very first phone call to tell me the life changing news, I knew I was to be the one to help my brother. I wanted more than anything to give Ben his life back....
Life Stories
When your mother gives you one of her kidneys, ‘thank you’ seems inadequate

It has been an absolute privilege to be able to donate a kidney to my son. The joy of seeing him looking and feeling so much better is indescribable and I think I’ve benefited from the...
Life Stories
On marathons, Italian villages and kidney donation

Sometimes in life, you arrive at a big decision and it’s not very easy to understand how and why you got there. Donating my kidney to a stranger is not one of those. There were three...