{"id":725,"date":"2020-09-03T09:21:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T09:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/?p=725"},"modified":"2020-09-03T09:25:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T09:25:48","slug":"organ-donation-awareness-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/2020\/09\/03\/organ-donation-awareness-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Organ Donation Awareness Week 7th &#8211; 13th September 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NHS uses Organ Donation Week to raise awareness of the importance of organ donation. The system for organ donation within England changed on the 20th May 2020 from an &#8216;opt-in&#8217; system to an &#8216;opt-out&#8217; system. This means that previously you would have been asked to sign up to the organ donation donor list and now you are asked to decide if you wish to opt-out.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about this change to the law please use this link:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/files\/2020\/09\/Organ-Donation-Law-in-England-Factsheet.pdf\">Organ Donation Law in England Factsheet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below are some useful links to find out more about the different aspects of the organ donation process:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/files\/2020\/09\/Why-Should-I-Become-An-Organ-Donor.pdf\">Why Should I Become An Organ Donor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/files\/2020\/09\/How-Do-I-Register-As-An-Organ-Donor.pdf\">How Do I Register As An Organ Donor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/files\/2020\/09\/What-Is-The-Organ-Transplant-Waiting-List.pdf\">What Is The Organ Transplant Waiting List<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/files\/2020\/09\/How-Does-Organ-Donation-Work.pdf\">How Does Organ Donation Work<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/files\/2020\/09\/How-Does-Organ-Transplant-Surgery-Work.pdf\">How Does Organ Transplant Surgery Work<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/files\/2020\/09\/How-Does-Organ-Donation-Happen-After-You-Die.pdf\">How Does Organ Donation Happen After You Die<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/files\/2020\/09\/Tissue-Donation.pdf\">Tissue Donation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For further information please click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.organdonation.nhs.uk\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NHS uses Organ Donation Week to raise awareness of the importance of organ donation. The system for organ donation within England changed on the 20th May 2020 from an &#8216;opt-in&#8217; system to an &#8216;opt-out&#8217; system. This means that previously &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/2020\/09\/03\/organ-donation-awareness-week\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68830,"featured_media":740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[233255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}