What is the National Kidney Transplant Scheme called nowadays? (In Australia only)?

Answer 1

Are you referring to Transplant Australia?


Or the below:

Dr Timothy Mathew, the medical director of Kidney Health Australia, said the national organ donor performance "continues to be abysmal".

He said the introduction of a compensation scheme - to cover out-of-pocket expenses incurred by live donors - would help boost numbers.

Patients who travel overseas for commercial kidney transplants are putting their lives at risk, a group of doctors has warned.

Writing in The Medical Journal of Australia, the specialists from Prince of Wales, Royal North Shore and St George hospitals say survival rates are far inferior to those in Australia and that some patients are being exposed to viruses such as HIV.


Doctors at Johns Hopkins University have been working with a domino-paried donation program in an attempt to get round the incompatible altruistic donor issue. Under this scheme, a kidney patient with a willing but incompatible donor gets matched instead with a compatible donor.

The incompatible donor then gets matched with the next suitable patient on the United Network of Organ Sharing list - a national system regulating organ donation. In that way, both donors are treated to the same ethical standards and organs are not 'wasted'.


Using the domino approach, Johns Hopkins surgeons recently did two triple and one double domino-paired kidney transplant - supplying eight recipients with kidneys. With more conventional approaches, only three kidneys would have been used.

The domino system uses the altruism of potential donors to create maximum benefit to kidney patients.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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