Links
The Irish Kidney Association is a charitable voluntary organisation dedicated to meeting the needs of renal patients and their families and carers who are living with and affected by end stage renal disease. It endeavours through its work to ease the burden and trauma of the patient and family and it provides services directly, and acts as a conduit for accessing services. The IKA promotes organ donation through constant public donor awareness and education campaigns.
In recognition of the advancement in transplantation surgery the IKA joined forces with other interested groups who share a common interest in organ donor awareness under the banner of the Irish Donor Network, which includes:
- The Cystic Fibrosis Association
- The Heart & Lung Transplant Association
- The Liver Transplant Unit, St. Vincent's Hospital
- Transplant Co-ordinators
- The Alpha One Foundation
- The Eye Bank
An Irish eGovernment website providing public service info for Ireland.
Features up-to-date news and views on all health related topics and issues.
Official website of the CF Association of Ireland covering a wide range of topics relating to cystic fibrosis.
A very personal website set up by Dr. Karol Donnelly as a liver recipient in the hope that it would be helpful to other recipients, pending recipients and families and friends, something she herself yearned for in the months following her own transplant.
Beaumont Transplant Foundation's main aim is to provide patient care, education and research in the field of kidney transplantation. It has facilitated many new developments and assisted in several education and research programmes in the area of renal transplantation.
www.beaumont.ie/depts/support/transplant/organ_procurement.html
The National Organ procurement Service at Beaumont Hospital through its transplant coordinators provides a 24-hour service to the 40 donating hospitals around the country, three transplant centres, tissue bank and UKTSSA. It is these coordinators who meet with the donor family and support the staff in ITU and Theatre throughout the donation process, people with whom donor families have a very real connection.
Transplant NI Team is based at Belfast City Hospital providing a regional service to facilitate organ donation in every Intensive Care Unit throughout Northern Ireland.
The Irish Blood Transfusion Service encourages us all to share life by donating blood.
An inspirational website featuring personal stories of great courage, gratitude and achievement.
Anam Cara Parent Bereavement Support was formed recently to address the needs of bereaved parents and families and to offer opportunities to support and be supported by parents who have experienced the loss of a child.
The aim of Build 4 Life which was founded by friends and family of Cystic Fibrosis patients in Cork and Kerry is to: Raise Awareness of Cystic Fibrosis in the region: Raise over 1 million euro to develop Ireland's first dedicated CF treatment unit within Cork University Hospital.
The Donor Family Network, based in the UK, is run by donor families to support donor families and to promote organ and tissue donation.
Legacy of Life was founded by Sue and Richard Cansdale after their only daughter, Zoë, became a tissue donor in 1998. It represents all those whose lives have been touched by transplantation.
All About Transplantation and Donation is a nonprofit educational web site serving the world transplant community. Based at the University of Michigan, TransWeb features news and events, real people's experiences, the top 10 myths about donation, a donation quiz, and a large collection of questions and answers, as well as a reference area with everything from articles to videos.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jov0bWNx0M
A link to an advertisement on organ donation, produced by a student for a media project.
To Transplant & Beyond - an inspirational organ recipient website celebrating man's potential to achieve at both a humanitarian and personal level.
www.rvhliversupportgroup.co.uk
An independent liver support group operating throughout Northern Ireland which provides support, non medical advice and information to all those coping with liver disease.
www.transplantsupportnetwork.org.uk
The transplant Support Network is a UK based network providing support to patients, family and carers of organ transplants.
www.livelifethengivelife.co.uk
Live Life Then Give Life campaigns to increase the number of people on the organ donation register and encourages the public to think and talk about organ donation.
Information and services for end of life matters in Ireland
Other links
www.hibernian.ie/online/lifeandhealth - Hibernian, kind sponsors of "Strange Boat"
www.mikescottwaterboys.com - Mike Scott
www.eleanorshanley.com - Eleanor Shanley
www.daisydiscs.com - Daisy Discs
www.eddireader.co.uk - Eddi Reader
www.andydunne.com - Andy is a successful Irish singer/songwriter who received the gift of a life saving kidney in 2001.
