Organ Donation anyone

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Organ Donation anyone?
Plan of Action to make organ donation Trendy
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Since 1 April 2004 1,755 people have received
transplants589 people have donated
organs6,014 people are still waiting for
transplants 1,812 people have received the
gift of sight
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Case Study
Young Connor Shaw is able to play with his school
friends --- after a life-saving heart
transplant. Connor, aged five, who was born
with a heart defect, was back at school and
running around with the other children just
months after the ten-hour operation. He had
nine operations before his fourth birthday and,
at one time, was so ill he was given the last
rites
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Internationally renowned skater, Richard Taylor
thrilled fans around the world
Aged 23, he had already achieved eight years as a
professional skater. In 2004 he not only won the
UK National In-Line Skating championships for the
second year in a row, he also took the British
Freestyle Skiing Big Air competition title in
France, having started freestyle skiing just a
few months before. Then, only a month after his
victory, he was critically injured while
skating in his home town in South Wales, and was
in a coma for five days before his death.
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• Did you know?
• You are more likely to need a transplant than
  become a donor
• A donor can donate a heart, lungs, two kidneys,
  pancreas, liver and small bowel and restore the
  sight of two others
• Donors can also give bone and tissue such as
  skin, heart valves and tendons.
• Skin grafts have helped people with severe burns
  and bone is used in orthopaedic surgery

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There is a major shortage
Bags like this are lying empty something
needs to be done
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• Average Waiting Times for Transplant
• Organ Adults Children
  
• Kidney 506 203
• Heart 164
  73
• Lung 374
  1292
• Heart Lung 491
  546
• Liver 69
  60
• (in days)

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To Combat This Problem

• S.E - look at organ donation from S1-5
• -video available from the NHS
• the chance to miss one period of school every
  s1-5 will be
• desperate to take part
• Create wristbands or badges for blazers
• (perhaps blood red colour) which people wear if
  they are donors
• Get teachers/dinner ladies/seniors to wear
  symbols to
• show they are proud to be donors
• ----encouraging younger pupils -and if the trendy
  6th years wear them then itll not be seen as
  nerdy or geeky

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6th Years could use it as part of their
community service by talking to younger pupils
about it. I read elsewhere that a Sikh man had
encouraged all of his religious community to
become organ donation- could we ask Colin Renwick
to involve church members? There are youth groups
for s3 ,4 and 6 Carry out theory of knowledge
session from week 3- the liver transplant in
SE. Speak to parents at an information evening
or create leaflets informing them of the benfits
of organ donation
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Even the s3 boys might think they were ok to
wear in public
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• To Summarise
• -SE sessions?
• Badge/wristbands?
• Involve the staff team ?
• Involve the whole of 6th year?
• Perhaps get a member of the organisation to come
  and talk to 6th year?
• Church Involvment-youth groups?
• Parent involvment- leaflets/posters/information
  meetings
• Local shops have forms to give customers to
  register organ donation

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• Encourage people to collect one of these or even
  easier-
• online at
• http//www.uktransplant.org.uk
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  With the