Document library
This page contains organ donation and transplantation policy and guidance documents. You can use the buttons below to navigate the page.
Useful documents
- Exceptional Donation Requests Policy - POL322 (PDF 211KB)
- Super urgent / urgent heart recipient registration form - FRM4351 (PDF 1MB)
- Super urgent / urgent lung recipient registration form - FRM5769 (PDF 778KB)
- Organ outcome enquiry form - FRM6619 (Word 56KB)
- Organ outcome enquiry form completion guidance (PowerPoint 2MB)
Patient assessment/donor characterisation
- Guidelines for consent for solid organ transplantation in adults - POL191 (PDF 276KB)
- Clinical Contraindications to approaching families for possible organ donation - POL188 (PDF 537KB)
- SARS-CoV2 deceased organ donor screening - SOP5869 (PDF 969KB)
- Physical assessment - MPD873 (PDF 314KB)
- Forearm sentinel skin flap donation to detect rejection - SOP5048 (PDF 403KB)
- Findings requiring additional action - MPD881 (PDF 427KB)
- Receipt and management of microbiological blood results at time of donation - SOP4618 (PDF 441KB)
- Management of microbiological blood results received post organ/tissue donation - SOP3579 (PDF 444KB)
- New findings made at transplant centres requiring histopathology assessment - SOP5735 (PDF 1MB)
- Donation pathway communication touchpoints - MPD1382 (PDF 572KB)
- Establishing Pregnancy Status and Pregnancy in Donation - MPD891 (PDF 637KB)
- SARS-CoV2 screening in organ donors and recipients - POL304
- Monkeypox and organ transplantation - INF1640
Organ offering (pre-theatre and in-theatre)
- Patient information to be communicated to Recipient Centre points of contact - MPD867 (PDF 315KB)
- Theatre manual for deceased organ donors - SOP5499 (PDF1.1MB)
- Guidance and principles: organ donation photographs - MPD1100
- Findings during retrieval requiring histopathology assessment - SOP5352 (PDF 750KB)
- National standards for organ retrieval from deceased donors - MPD1043
- Sharing Clinical Information - SOP4938 (PDF 2MB)
- Abdominal NRP - SOP5917 (PDF 601KB)
Quality
- Reporting an organ donation or transplantation incident to NHSBT - SOP3888 (PDF 142KB)
- Complaints and compliments on Organ Donation and Transplantation (ODT) - SOP4358
Research
General awareness
- Positive transport fluid - MPD1338
- Responsibilities for clinicians for the acceptance of organs from deceased donors - POL192