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There is currently a critical shortage of child organ donors, meaning that some British families and children in desperate need spend years on the waiting list for life-saving donations that never materialise

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust’s renal unit hosted a celebration for Sue Westhead and Robert Hughes who both were celebrating 50 years since their life changing kidney transplants

George Wathey is one of the UK's youngest patients waiting for a heart transplant at just three weeks old - mum Emma is desperate to find him a donor before it's too late

Sara Pitt passed away just weeks before Christmas 2021 after coming down with a chest infection, her husband Karl, a retired teacher, said his wife of 25 years was the "most wonderful person"

Amelia Bolter was 17 months old when doctors said she was 'waiting at God’s door', and she has now spent ten months in hospital hooked up to a machine to keep her alive

"It reminds us he has been recognised for what he has done. I always tell people Aari died but we celebrate the fact that he has helped others. We’re so proud of him"

“She loved being back with her siblings, just in time to welcome her new baby brother, Ralphie, to the world. It was the one thing she wished for in her recovery – to hold her baby brother”

Scientists at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health in China reported the kidneys had normal structure and formation after 28 days and were 50% to 60% human cells

Katie and Graham Tatham are hoping for a donor for their son Ralph after he was diagnosed with liver cancer but say it's hard to process that only another child can save him

Ethan Eaves was admitted to hospital at five months and stayed there until he came home in the summer of 2020 at 18 months old, following his lifesaving transplant

Surgeon David Bartlett is faced with his worst nightmare mid-transplant, when his patient's blood supply proves too weak for his new liver. If he can't get it flowing, Dan will die within days

Two proud mums will cheer on a 15-year-old lad in this year’s Coventry Games - they met after one wrote letters of introduction to five people saved by her son's organs

Patrick O’Sullivan’s wife Geraldine, 65, died from a catastrophic bleed on the brain last year - but he says knowing how she has helped others in her death has helped with his grief

When we began our Change the Law for Life campaign in 2016, there were 22.5million people on the NHS Organ Donor Register - now there are more than 30m, around 46% of the population

Arab carpenter Abu Radia has met with Lucy Dee’s rabbi husband Leo, and thanked him for the extraordinary gift of love