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Call You and Yours: Organ Donation

Organ donation is down for the first time in more than a decade. What might help? Should doctors be able to assume someone would be happy to donate their organs when they die?

On Call You & Yours we're asking if doctors should be able to assume that you'd be happy to donate your organs when you die.

A new report from the NHS Blood and Transplant Service found that the number of people donating organs in the UK has fallen for the first time in a decade. They're calling for a 'revolution' in attitudes towards organ donation. What might bring about that revolution?

What would have persuaded the one hundred and twenty families who denied a relative's stated wish to donate? Were you one of them, would you be willing to tell us how you made your decision?

Perhaps you or someone you love is on a waiting list, willing families to donate to you. Or perhaps you are a grateful recipient who might tell us the affect it has had on your life.

Email us now please youandyours@bbc.co.uk and leave a contact number so we can call you back.

Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Olive Clancy.

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