Europe is currently facing a shortage of organs, leading to increasingly long waiting lists for transplants. As well as improving the quality of life of their recipients, transplants also help save money for public health systems. For example, a kidney transplant recipient costs Spain €30,000 less per year than a patient on dialysis, according to the Spanish National Transplant Organisation. The Hungarian presidency of the Council of the EU has now introduced a new proposal aimed at increasing “organ availability, enhancing efficiency and accessibility in transplant systems, and improving qual…