From the Heart
All week ITV are running a special series on organ donation as part of their 'From the Heart' campaign. We want your help to try and save thousands of lives.
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From the Heart: Catch up on this week's stories
From the Heart: Behind the scenes at an organ donation
Granada Reports been given extraordinary access to film a kidney transplant at Manchester Royal Infirmary, which has the UK's busiest renal transplant programme.
Peter Hartley had waited years for his transplant. Diagnosed with kidney failure, his life had been on hold while he's been on the waiting list, having to go on dialysis five days a week.
From the Heart: Behind the scenes at an organ donation
by Mel Barham
We've been given extraordinary access to a transplant at Manchester Royal Infirmary, which has the UK's busiest renal transplant programme
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From the Heart: Catch up on this week's stories
Catch up on our series to mark ITV's From the Heart campaign in the North West
Read the full storyFrom the Heart: Waiting on the organ donor register
Our reporter Mel Barham meets Ron Burrows from Southport, whose wife Philomena died on the transplant waiting list a year ago.
From the Heart: Waiting on the organ donor register
by Mel Barham
Our reporter Mel Barham meets Ron Burrows from Southport, whose wife Philomena died on the transplant waiting list.
Read the full storyFrom the Heart - shortage of ethnic minority donors
by Mel Barham
From the Heart - shortage of ethnic minority donors. Reporter Mel Barham meets one man who's been waiting four years for a kidney.
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Shortage of organ donors in ethnic communities
There's a worrying shortage of organ donors in ethnic minority communities. A fifth of the 900 people waiting for kidneys in Manchester are Asian.
Yet less than 2% of people on the donor register are actually from Asian backgrounds.
That's despite religious leaders saying organ donation should be encouraged.
In the latest in our series to mark ITV's From the Heart campaign, Mel Barham's been hearing from one man having to wait.
From the Heart: Natalie Kerr's story
The second video in our series on organ donation as part of ITV's From the Heart campaign.
We're looking at why there is such a shortage of people on the organ donor register.
Last year we followed the story of Natalie Kerr. She underwent a double lung transplant at Wythenshawe Hospital.
One year on, she has gone back to talk to those who saved her life, and to urge others to sign up.
Transplant patient visits those who saved her life
by Mel Barham
I first met Natalie Kerr about 4 years ago. She was suffering from a condition that affected both her lungs and her heart.
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