The failure of organ donation reform
Ani O’Brien has a long and excellent piece on the failure of organ donation reform.
The TLDR version is:
- Strategy released in 2017
- Law change passed in 2019
- Funding of $3 million a year for implementing new strategy derived in Budget 2022
- Organ Donation NZ used all the new funding for existing operations, rather than implementing the new strategy to increase donor rates
- Donation rate in 2017 was 73 and in 2024 was just 70
It is simply unacceptable.
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