UK investigating 800,000 organ donor list errors; some transplants may have been improper

UK investigates 800,000 organ donor list errors

LONDON — Britain’s transplant authority says it is investigating several hundred thousand organ donor list errors stretching back to about 1999.

The National Health Service Blood and Transplant organization says a proportion of its 14 million organ donor list has been affected by technical errors, meaning some of the choices filled out by donors may have been transposed.

That means, for example, that people who wanted to donate organs such as their lungs or their skin were put down as people who wanted to donate their corneas or heart.

The service stresses that all those on the register were willing donors of one form or another and that no data was lost.