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Organ and Tissue Donation Agencies

DonateLife in New South Wales (NSW)  
DonateLife in NSW - part of the NSW Organ and Tissue Service - coordinates all organ and tissue donor activities across the state. It works with hospitals and hospital-based organ and tissue donation medical specialists and nurses across NSW to provide professional donation services and encourage best practice to increase donation rates. The agency offers donor families ongoing bereavement support through the Next Step Program. It also helps raise community awareness and understanding about organ and tissue donation to encourage all NSW families to discuss donation, know each other's wishes and register their decision.

DonateLife in Queensland (QLD)  
DonateLife in Queensland (formerly called Queenslanders Donate) was formed in 1999 and coordinates all deceased organ and tissue donor activities across Queensland. The agency works with hospitals and organ and tissue donation medical specialists and nurses across the state to provide professional donation services and encourage best practice to maximise donation rates. DonateLife in Queensland aims to raise awareness about organ and tissue donation, encourage discussion about donation, offer support to donor families and manage effective services in organ and tissue donation.

DonateLife in South Australia (SA)  
Formerly the South Australian Organ Donation Agency (SAODA), DonateLife in South Australia was formed in 1996 to coordinate all organ and tissue donor activities across the state. DonateLife in South Australia works with organ and tissue donation medical specialists and nurses in hospitals across the state to provide professional donation services and encourage best practice in organ and tissue transplantation. The team also work toward increasing donation rates through helping to raise community awareness and understanding about organ and tissue donation and encouraging all South Australian families to make an informed decision about becoming an organ donor, to register their decision and to discuss and know each other's wishes.

DonateLife in Tasmania (TAS)  
DonateLife in Tasmania, in conjunction with DonateLife Victoria, coordinates all organ and tissue donor activities across Tasmania. It works with hospitals and hospital-based organ and tissue donation medical specialists and nurses across Tasmania to provide professional donation services and encourage best practice to increase donation rates. DonateLife in Tasmania also helps raise community awareness and understanding about organ and tissue donation to encourage all Tasmanian families to discuss donation, know each other's wishes and register their decision.

DonateLife in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT)  
DonateLife in the ACT, formerly called the ACT Organ and Tissue Donation Service, coordinates all organ and tissue donor activities across the ACT and region. It works with hospitals and hospital-based organ and tissue donation medical specialists and nurses across the ACT and region to provide professional donation services and encourage best practice to increase donation rates.

DonateLife in the Northern Territory (NT)  
DonateLife in the Northern Territory (formerly known as LifeNet NT) coordinates all organ and tissue donor activities across the Northern Territory. It works with hospitals and hospital-based organ and tissue donation medical specialists and nurses to provide professional donation services and encourage best practice to increase donation rates in the Northern Territory. The agency aims to raise awareness about organ and tissue donation, encourage discussion about donation, offer compassionate support to donor families and manage effective services in organ and tissue donation.

DonateLife in Victoria (VIC)  
DonateLife in Victoria, formerly called LifeGift, coordinates organ donation in Victoria and Tasmania and works with the Donor Tissue Bank of Victoria and Lions Eye Bank to consent organ donor families for potential tissue donation. The team works with hospitals and hospital-based organ and tissue donation medical specialists and nurses across Victoria to provide professional donation services and encourage best practice to increase donation performance.

DonateLife in Western Australia (WA)  
DonateLife in Western Australia, formerly called DonateWest, was formed in 2000 and is part of the Department of Health WA (North Metropolitan Area Health Service). It coordinates all organ and tissue donor activities across Western Australia. The agency works with hospitals and hospital-based organ and tissue donation medical specialists and nurses across Western Australia to provide professional donation services and encourage best practice to increase donation rates.

New Zealand Organ Donation Agency  
The Transplant Donor Co-ordination service began in 1987 with the commencement of heart transplantation at Green Lane Hospital. Today, this national service facilitates the retrieval of hearts, livers, kidneys, lungs, pancreas', bone, corneas and heart valves.

Professional and Community Organisations

Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society  
The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society was formed in 1975 to foster and promote all aspects of intensive care medicine within our two countries.

Australia and New Zealand Organ Donation Registry  
The Registry collects and records data on all organ donors after death.

Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority  
The Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority was established on 1st January 2009 to create a nationally consistent and coordinated approach to organ and tissue donation and transplantation. Its role is to work with states and territories, clinicians, consumers and the community sector to build a world leading organ and tissue donation and transplantation system for Australia.

Australian Organ Donor Register  
By registering to become an organ donor you could be making the greatest gift one human being can give another - the gift of life.

David Hookes Foundation  
The David Hookes Foundation was established to give people something far more important than money. We want to inspire more Australians to register as organ donors and, just as importantly, we want to encourage them to tell their families what they have done.

European Transplant Coordinators Organization  
The European Transplant Coordinators Organization (ETCO) was set up in 1983 to represent the issues of all those working as Transplant Coordinators in Europe and to promote organ and tissue donation in all member countries.

International Transplant Coordinators Society  
The ITCS was formed in order to create a structure that could respond to transplant coordination issues at international meetings, a structure similar to what the Transplantation Society provides for physicians, surgeons, immunologists and other related specialities.

International Transplant Nurses Society  
The International Transplant Nurses Society (ITNS) is a worldwide professional nursing organisation that represents all areas of transplantation. ITNS supports clinicians in meeting the ongoing clinical changes and challenges that transplant nurses tackle daily.

North American Transplant Coordinators Organisation  
We are the organisation for transplant professionals worldwide. We have over 1,800 members and are always looking for ways to diversify our presence in the transplant community.

Renal Society of Australasia  
The Renal Society of Australasia aims for excellence in the dissemination of knowledge in renal disease and replacement therapy.

Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand  
The TSANZ is the professional society of thoracic physicians, scientists and other health care workers involved in lung disease. Its aims are to prevent and cure respiratory disease and relieve disability in those with lung disease.

Transplant Australia  
Transplant Australia Ltd. is an organisation representing transplant recipients, people currently undergoing dialysis treatment, those awaiting transplantation, donor families (including living donors) and medical professionals involved in organ and tissue donation and transplantation.

Transplant Nurses Association  
The TNA is committed to advancing opportunities to enable education, research and networking for nurses and allied health professionals involved in transplantation.

Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand  
The Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) has as members, scientists, doctors, transplant coordinators and research students with an interest in all forms of transplantation.

Zaidee's Rainbow Foundation  
The Foundation aims to make organ and tissue donation and awareness more prevalent in the community. The Foundation sells Zaidee's Rainbow Shoelaces around Australia as an awareness campaign

Publications

Progress in Transplantation - the official journal of ATCA  
Progress in Transplantation is the official journal of the North American Transplant Coordinators Organization, Association for Nurses Endorsing Transplantation, Australasian Transplant Co-ordinators Association, International Transplant Coordinators Society, Canadian Association of Transplantation, International Transplant Nurses Society, Japan Transplant Coordinators Organization, Society for Transplant Social Workers, and United Kingdom Transplant Coordinators' Association.