BME Community – Organ donation study

There are 8,780 people waiting for new kidneys in the UK.

2,168 of these are from black and other minority ethnic groups (24.7%), but people from these groups only make up 2.9% of the donor register.

Although a donor does not have to be from the same ethnic background, they are more likely to match if they are.

New research

Now a nationwide study has been launched to find out why so few people from the ethnic communities donate organs and what can be done to increase this.

Professor Gurch Randhawa, director of the Institute for Health Research at the University of Bedfordshire, has been given a grant from the NHS Blood and Transplant service to carry out the two-year study.

Click here: BBC News Health

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