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Organ and Tissue Donation Week – 21-27 September 2026
Created: 17/09/2026News/Events Category: Health and Social Care
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The Scottish Government's Organ & Tissue Donation Week campaign takes place 21-27 September 2026 with the theme "Don't leave your loved ones in doubt".
The campaign aims to encourage people aged 16 and over to record their donation decision on the NHS Organ DOnor Register, and to tell their loved ones too.
The campaign is in response to a significant and sustained decline in public understanding of Scotland's opt-out system of organ and tissue donation. Public support for the opt-out system has fallen and understanding of how the system operates is at its lowest recorded level since its introduction.
Specialist organ and tissue donation nurses are seeing an increasing number of families who are unaware of Scotland's opt-out system. When loved ones do not know a person's wishes, family support for donation may be less likely, and authorisation rates have declined in recent years.
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