{"id":5753,"date":"2011-11-15T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T14:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=5753"},"modified":"2011-11-15T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T14:47:09","slug":"wales-to-change-transplant-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/11\/15\/wales-to-change-transplant-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales to change transplant rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Government publish white paper outlining donor overhaul<\/h2>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<div id=\"attachment_5767\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/Nologo_6_Donor_Big_SL1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5767\" title=\"Nologo_6_Donor_Big_SL\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/Nologo_6_Donor_Big_SL1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/Nologo_6_Donor_Big_SL1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/Nologo_6_Donor_Big_SL1-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5767\" title=\"Nologo_6_Donor_Big_SL\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/Nologo_6_Donor_Big_SL1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/Nologo_6_Donor_Big_SL1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/11\/Nologo_6_Donor_Big_SL1-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The white paper&#039;s proposals would make more transplant organs available<\/p><\/div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Welsh Government\u2019s white paper outlining plans to reform the donor card system was finally published last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Government\u2019s plans would allow the removal of a patients organs after death unless the patient chose to \u2018opt out\u2019 of the proposed scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The so called \u2018soft opt out\u2019 option would ensure family members are consulted before organs are removed and would dramatically increase the number of organs available for transplantation.<\/p>\n<p>Delith Lloyd from the British Heart Foundation Cymru says they are fully behind the proposals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe system will obviously help people who are on the list for a heart transplant,\u201d said Delyth. \u201cHeart transplants are the only effective treatment for heart failure, but a shortage of hearts means that many people die whilst waiting on the list.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government publish white paper outlining donor overhaul \u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Welsh Government\u2019s white paper outlining plans to reform the donor card system was finally published last week. The Government\u2019s plans would allow the removal of a patients organs after death unless the patient chose to \u2018opt out\u2019 of the proposed scheme. The so called \u2018soft opt out\u2019 option would ensure family members are consulted before organs are removed and would dramatically increase the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":5786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1278,1279,1280,325],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-no-logo","tag-british-heart-foundation","tag-organ-donor","tag-transplant","tag-welsh-government"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wales to change transplant rules - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/11\/15\/wales-to-change-transplant-rules\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wales to change transplant rules - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Government publish white paper outlining donor overhaul \u00a0 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Welsh Government\u2019s white paper outlining plans to reform the donor card system was finally published last week. 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