The ethics of organ retrieval: Goals, rights and responsibilities. (360G-Wellcome-094991_Z_10_Z)

(1) To provide a unique forum for a diverse set of professionals involved in organ donation and transplantation, and interested members of the general public to come together to discuss ethical issues raised by organ retrieval and the impact these continue to have on the delivery of clinical transplant services and transplant outcome. (2) To provide an opportunity for senior clinicians involved in organ donation and transplantation to set out the clinical goals of organ donation and transplantation and to engage with academic lawyers, ethicists, policy makers, key stakeholders and interested members of the general public about the difficult challenges current ethical, legal and regulatory policy frameworks present. (3) To promote cross disciplinary collaboration. (4) To highlight key issues affecting deceased donor organ retrieval including: a. Indications for referral for brainstem death testing and organ donation; b. Organ donation following diagnosis of cardiac death (DCD); c. Organ donation following diagnosis of brainstem death (DBD); d. Donor organ optimisation; e. Conducting research on the deceased. (5) To gather consensus views which inform public policy: (6) To develop potential public policy proposals specifically addressing: a. Whether the UK should implement a system of 'required referral for brainstem death testing and organ donation on the basis of clinical triggers'; b. Donor organ optimisation. (7) To publish a 'special issue' of the journal Clinical Ethics entitled 'The ethics of organ retrieval' which will include complex clinical case studies and papers which examine empirical ethics, law and public policy in this domain, highlighting disparate and consensus views.