More than 16,000 lives have been saved through organ donation in the Midlands — with over 60,000 of the district’s residents on the donor register. This Organ Donation Week, September 23 to 29, NHS Blood and Transplant is celebrating 30 years of live-saving gifts through the NHS Organ Donor Register — with more than 3.8million people in the Midlands having declared their willingness to donate their organs after death. This equates to 66,146 people on the register in Newark and Sherwood, and a total of 485,590 across Nottinghamshire. Since the creation of the NHS Organ Donor Register in 1994, m…
