Scrubbed Up: A Liver Transplant

Jul 29, 2013, 07:57 AM

The NHS is considering preventing families overriding the wishes of people who wanted to be organ donors.

Officials are also looking at a scheme to give priority to people on the donor register if they need a transplant.

It comes as we're marking National Transplant Week.

The West Midlands is home to several centres of excellence for organ transplants like Birmingham Children's Hospital.

Last month our reporter EMMA THOMAS had the opportunity to witness an organ transplant operation at the centre....

The patient was an eight-year-old boy from Wales. Amman has been receiving treatment at Birmingham Children's Hospital for five years and Emma witnessed his third liver transplant...