[BITList] Organ donor blunders 'could cost lives'

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Organ donor blunders 'could cost lives'
Patients could die unnecessarily as a result of a blunder that has meant hundreds of thousands of potential organ donors have had their wishes incorrectly recorded, it has been warned. 

By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
Published: 11:40PM BST 11 Apr 2010 

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 Officials fear that trust could collapse in the donor register, which holds more than 16 million names. Photo: PA 
 Andy Burnham, the Health Secretary, has expressed regret over the blunder. Photo: CLARA MOLDEN 
Families of would-be donors may refuse permission for transplants if they fear that the deceased's stipulations on which organs they were willing to donate were not going to be followed. 

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It emerged that details collected from driving licence applications over the past six years had been mixed up after being passed to NHS Blood and Transplant, which runs the organ donor register. 


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A total of 800,000 records were affected - half of which have been corrected but 400,000 are yet to be notified that there is a problem. 

Officials fear that trust could collapse in the donor register, which holds more than 16 million names. 

The blunder related to instructions about which organs people were willing to donate. Many are reluctant to offer external body parts such as corneas or skin, while others state that their tissue cannot be used for research. These stipulations were mixed up when details were transferred to the NHS database. 
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