Inside Report
Face with the shortage of organs, medical staff are always trying to persuade people to join an organ donation register.
One of the most difficult jobs for them is to approach the families of people who are critically ill in the hospitals and ask whether they would consider allowing transplant donation.
At Poole Hospital intensive therapy unit, Matron Amanda Saltmarsh and her colleague have experienced many similar hard but necessary conversation.
The talk is never easy, talking about organ and tissue donation with the family always happens at a traumatic moment, when the family is still in shock over the death of their relative.
Firsthand information from Amanda
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