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Proposed Change to Donor Rules Submitted to Ballot
Friday, 24 February 2006, 9:23 am | Give life
A proposed law change to make organ donor's wishes binding has been entered into the Parliamentary Ballot today by National's Associate Spokeswoman for Health Dr.Jackie Blue. More >>
Organ Donation – Facts, Figures and Other Info
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 11:31 am | Give life
An ICU (Intensive Care Unit) audit of deaths and organ donation was done in 2002. It has not been done since, or if it has it has been kept quiet. I have been unable to establish if another one has been done as doctors/MOH have been evasive on the ... More >>
Donor Doctors the Main Reason for Shortage
Tuesday, 13 September 2005, 2:03 pm | Give life
The headlines in the major papers today highlight just how bad New Zealand’ organ donation situation is. Recently the government announced that should they return to power they would implement a National Organ Donor Register. More >>
NZ's Organ Donor Problems Make Interesting Reading
Wednesday, 17 August 2005, 8:48 am | Give life
New Zealand’s ailing organ donor system is gaining increasing interest overseas a website statistics report shows. More >>
MOH Continues to Dumb Down Organ Donation
Friday, 5 August 2005, 9:24 am | Give life
The new National Organ Donation Service – Organ Donation NZ was launched last Friday, July 1 in a blaze of apathy from the Minister and Ministry of Health. More >>
MOH Continues to Dumb Down Organ Donation
Monday, 4 July 2005, 8:44 am | Give life
The new National Organ Donation Service – Organ Donation NZ was launched last Friday, July 1 in a blaze of apathy from the Minister and Ministry of Health. More >>
Complaint Alleges King May Have Misled Parliament
Tuesday, 31 May 2005, 12:58 am | Give life
Andy Tookey of organ donation lobby group GiveLife NZ has laid a formal complaint to the Speaker of the House of Representatives alleging that the Minister of Health may have misled Parliament in response to written Parliamentary Questions. He has ... More >>
Jackson sends organ donation message to 30 million
Monday, 2 May 2005, 8:52 am | Give life
Lord of the Rings film director Peter Jackson has included in his Return of the King Special Edition DVD a promotional advertisement which encourages people to consider being organ donors. More >>
Government Hides the Truth on Organ Donation
Tuesday, 26 April 2005, 8:15 am | Give life
Answers to recent Parliamentary questions, and documents obtained from the Organ Donation Registry show that last year New Zealand again dropped to the bottom of the Western World when it came to the number of organ donors it has. More >>
Donate, or don’t ask
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 9:53 am | Give life
Despite three years of pleading, lobbying and Parliamentary Select Committee hearings last year the number organ donors was just 40 people. More >>
Organ Donors: No Give, No Take?
Monday, 14 March 2005, 9:18 am | Give life
Organ Donation lobby group GiveLife NZ are currently seeking the views of the public on directed donation in preparation for the forthcoming Parliamentary review of the Human Tissue Act 1964. More >>
One giant leap for govt. a small step for mankind
Tuesday, 1 February 2005, 9:27 am | Give life
''Would you subject yourself to the pain, suffering, constant coming and going to hospital for tests and replacing your weekly wage for $165 a week?'' That is what the government are expecting you do under their compensation for donors package announced ... More >>
Human Tissue Act Online Petition
Wednesday, 5 January 2005, 1:26 pm | Give life
Sometime this year the Parliamentary Health Select Committee will be reviewing the laws surrounding the Human Tissue Act 1964. More >>
Minister of Health Prescribes More Pain and Death
Thursday, 16 December 2004, 8:59 am | Give life
The Government have today tabled their response to the Health Select Committee recommendations on an Organ Donor Register to replace the Driving Licence system. More >>
For every door that opens another one slams shut
Tuesday, 26 October 2004, 3:57 pm | Give life
That's how it seems at the moment, there seems to be a fair amount of politics & pettiness in trying to save lives recently. Here's the story. More >>
Organ Donor Doctors in a Time Warp
Thursday, 23 September 2004, 9:33 am | Give life
Transplant doctors have reacted in the media to the proposal of an organ donor register by saying it will not work. They then qualify the reason as to why it will not work by saying they will not bother to check a register to see what a persons wishes were, ... More >>
Organ Donor Register The Only Solution
Wednesday, 22 September 2004, 9:15 am | Give life
For a second time within a year the Parliamentary Health Select Committee have recommended the introduction of an organ donor register. More >>
Select Committee Report - Organ donor register
Tuesday, 21 September 2004, 3:08 pm | Give life
The Committee originally recommended a register in response to my petition, the register was rejected by the government who sent it back to the committee to investigate further. More >>
LOTRs Lead To International Fundraising Efforts
Friday, 27 August 2004, 9:47 am | Give life
Two New Zealand projects are to benefit from an international fundraising project by fans of The Lord of the Rings (LOTR) films. More >>
And the score is. Romania 200,000 New Zealand 0
Monday, 9 August 2004, 10:29 am | Give life
Lancet - The UK medical publication has revealed this weekend that Romania, a country that is not in the 'first' world listing is spending the equivalent of NZ $200,000 to promote organ donation. More >>
