Did you know that more than 7,500 people of all ages across the United Kingdom are waiting for an organ transplant?

Unfortunately, as many as 1,000 of them a year – on average, that’s three a day – will die because there are simply not enough organs available. According to the NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) - a Special Health Authority of the NHS responsible for managing the National Blood Service and Organ Donation and Transplantation Studies - “most of us would be willing to take a donated organ if we needed one, but currently only a third of the population is actually on the Organ Donor Register”.

MatchingDonors.com has become the world’s largest and most successful non-profit organisation promoting, registering, and finding living organ donors for people needing organ transplants.

Currently, patients waiting for an organ donation are placed on a national waiting list through the government. A computer system matches patients to donor organs according to objective criteria such as blood and tissue type, immune status, medical urgency and time spent on the waiting list - the average time to receive a deceased organ is many years on this list. This ranking system determines which patients are offered available organs. This process is extremely important in anyone's organ search, but MatchingDonors.com offers a way to enhance the search with a more active approach. Many patients receive their kidney transplant within six months of registering on MatchingDonors.com.   Organ failure is rampant in all segments, races and ages across the United Kingdom.

The MatchingDonors Living Organ Donor Initiative programme has already saved thousands of lives. All MatchingDonors, MatchingDonors.com and MatchingDonors.co.uk services and memberships are totally free to all patients and donors in the UK.  Visit www.matchingdonors.com for more information or to register as a donor.