About Us

Transplant NI Team

The team of 5 Transplant Co-ordinators is based at Belfast City Hospital and provides a Regional service to facilitate organ donation in every Intensive Care Unit throughout Northern Ireland. We play a pivotal role in talking with the donor family, gaining consent for donation, assessing which organs are suitable for transplant and arranging the donor operation.

The allocation of organs is governed by UK Transplant, which is a special health authority based within the NHS. Matching, particularly in the case of kidneys, is very important so donated kidneys are shared throughout the UK to ensure that each kidney goes to the best matched person.

UK Transplant is directly accountable to health ministers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and to Parliament through the Department of Health in England. Originally established in 1991 as the UK Transplant Support Service Authority (UKTSSA) its role was extended in July 2000 to increase organ donation rates.

For further information contact the Transplant NI team at Belfast City Hospital directly on 028 90 263846 or 028 90 263921. Or via the hospital switch board on 028 90 329241.

To sign up to the NHS Organ Donor Register click here