Organ Donation Presumed Consent

EDM number 85 in 2017-19, proposed by Paul Flynn on 28/06/2017.
Categorised under the topics of Health services and Medical ethics.

That this House congratulates the Scottish Government for announcing new legislation to introduce presumed consent for organ donation in Scotland; notes the model successes of presumed consent in Wales where 39 lives have been saved in the last year, which has inspired the change in Scotland; further notes that the UK still has the lowest rates of organ donation consent in Europe; and calls on the Government to save more lives by introducing presumed consent for organ donation in England.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs.