For longer than I can remember, I have carried a Donor Card in my wallet—I have just looked and mine is dated 17 Apr 1986. They were easy to get and quite high profile; on the counter in doctor’s surgeries, dentist’s, blood donor sessions, even non medical places like pubs, newsagents etc. sometimes had them.<\/p>\n
Today they are saying that there are nowhere near enough donors and perhaps we should change over to an opt-out system where permission to donate is assumed unless you have made a declaration that you do not want to. I don’t disagree with the idea but in passing I picked up another clue—the NHS Organ Donor Register<\/a>. I had never heard of it! Is it now true that it is no longer good enough to carry a card but you have to be signed up to some online database? I don’t think I like that idea*. Perhaps that is why the number of available donors is so low.<\/p>\n * I have had a look at the registration web site and, despite the announcement that it uses Digi-Sign and so is secure, that is an illusion. The information required is Name, DOB and Address. This is fairly public information; anyone could fill this in. DOB is a bit harder to obtain, but is not fully private.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For longer than I can remember, I have carried a Donor Card in my wallet—I have just looked and mine is dated 17 Apr 1986. They were easy to get and quite high profile; on the counter in doctor’s surgeries, dentist’s, blood donor sessions, even non medical places like pubs, newsagents etc. sometimes had them. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}