National Organ Donation Committee

The National Organ Donation Committee (NODC) is an advisory committee to NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) and acts as the national representative body for the twelve UK Regional Organ Donation Collaboratives.

The membership of the Committee includes the Regional Managers for Organ Donation and their respective Regional Clinical Leads (Find more information about Regional Collaboratives here). NODC meetings are attended by representatives of relevant professional bodies as well as senior staff from the Directorate of Organ Donation and Transplantation at NHSBT. There are three meetings a year which is chaired by Dr Paul Murphy, National Clinical Lead for Organ Donation.

Forthcoming meetings

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Minutes and agendas

2018

2017

2011 - 2017

Papers

2018

June 2018

February 2018

2017

November 2017

June 2017

February 2017

2016

2014 - 2016

Terms of Reference

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To act as a source of advice and assistance to NHSBT in the development of strategies to increase organ, corneal and tissue donation, and to work with NHSBT staff and the wider NHS to support their implementation.
To represent, lead and support the UK wide network of Donation Committees and Regional Collaboratives ensuring that regional issues are raised and shared at a national level
To provide a forum for identifying and spreading best practice across the UK
To lead the design and delivery of training and development opportunities for clinical staff involved in the care of potential deceased organ donors, including (but not limited to)
- refresher courses for Clinical Leads for Organ Donation and Donation Committee Chairs
- the National Donation Congress,
- relevant areas of the NHSBT organ donation microsite and organ donation toolkit
To assist NHSBT to improve and optimise all aspects of donation to enable more transplants to take place, including support for the implementation of interventions described within national strategies such as Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020. These actions will be directed towards
- the identification and timely referral of all potential donors in intensive care units and in other clinical areas such as Departments of Emergency Medicine and stroke units.
- the neurological determination of death in all possible cases
- ◦the physiological optimisation of potential brain dead donors, including intra-operative care
- donation after circulatory death
- the planning and delivery of the family approach for consent / authorisation for donation in collaboration with the specialist nurse for organ donation
To promote effective dialogue and collaboration between relevant professional groups and the Colleges and Societies that may represent them, including anaesthesia and critical care, paediatrics and child health, emergency medicine, critical care nursing, neurosurgery and retrieval / transplantation
To sponsor and support research, development and audit relevant to deceased donation, including (but not limited to) the analysis and future development of the Potential Donor Audit
To commission a small number of working subgroups that will deliver the key objectives of the committee, and to be chaired by the National Clinical Lead for Organ Donation at NHSBT

Membership

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Membership for the National Organ Donation Committee

National Clinical Lead for Organ Donation, NHSBT (Chair) - Dr Paul Murphy
National Deputy Clinical Lead for Organ Donation - Dr Dale Gardiner
National Clinical Lead for Donor Optimisation - Dr Gerlinde Mandersloot (Sabbatical)
National Clinical Lead for Governance - Prof. John Dark
Associate Medical Director for Organ Donation and Transplantation, NHSBT - Prof. John Forsythe
Director, Organ Donation and Transplantation, NHSBT - Ms Sally Johnson
Assistant Director, Organ Donation and Nursing, NHSBT - Mr Anthony Clarkson
Assistant Director Education and Excellence - Ms Olive McGowan
Head of Operations - Ms Fiona Wellington
Head of Service Development - Ms Ella Poppitt
Statistics and Clinical Studies, NHSBT - Mrs Rhiannon Taylor / Mrs Cara Hudson
Lead Nurse for Health Informatics - Mr John Richardson

Regional Collaborative Representatives

Scotland - Dr Charles Wallis
Midlands - Dr Nilesh Parekh and Prof. Jonathon Thompson
Yorkshire - Dr Helen Buglass and Dr Gary Wilbourn
South East - Dr Pardeep Gill and Dr Argyro Zoumprouli
East of England - Dr Paul Carroll
North West - Dr Ian Tweedie and Dr Alison Ingham
South West - Dr Alex Manara
London - Dr Andre Vercueil
Northern - Dr Angus Vincent
South Central - Dr Malcolm Watters
South Wales - Dr Katja Epson
Northern Ireland - Dr Paul Glover
Donation Committee Chair – Ms Amanda Gibbon

Regional Managers for Organ Donation

Northern Ireland – Mrs Monica Hackett
Northern, North West and Yorkshire – Ms Sue Duncalf
Scotland – Ms Lesley Logan
South Wales and South West – Mr Phil Walton
Midlands and South Central – Ms Susan Richards
London, Eastern and South East - Ms Marian Ryan

Professional representatives

Royal College of Anaesthetists – Prof. Stephen Bonner
Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine - Dr Alex Manara and Prof. David Menon
Intensive Care Society – Dr Jeremy Bewley
British Association of Critical Care Nursing – Ms Trish McReady
College of Emergency Medicine – Mr Brodie Paterson
Paediatric Intensive Care Society – Dr Kay Hawkins
British Transplantation Society - Ms Lisa Burnapp
Society of British Neurological Surgeons Dr Maria Cartmill

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