UK to ban private transplants

The move comes after media reports of overseas patients paying to receive organs donated by British people.

An independent report said that, as organs are scarce, no one should be able to pay for organ transplants to ensure NHS patients did not miss out,

Transplant surgeons said the ban would reassure the public that organs will go to those in greatest need.

Elisabeth Buggins, former chairwoman of the Organ Donation Taskforce, carried out an inquiry after allegations in a number of newspapers that organs from NHS donors were being given to patients from countries such as Greece and Italy.

It emerged that more than 700 transplants, mostly liver transplants, had been carried out on non-UK patients over the past decade.

In total, 631 of those transplants used organs from dead donors and, of those, 314 were from outside the EU.

It is not clear how many of those paid privately,  Kazinform refers to Trend News.