From the Heart: saving lives
We are launching a new campaign to help save thousands of lives and we want your help. There are currently 10,000 people waiting for a transplant - but life is a lottery on the transplant list. We are also using the new QR Code to spread the word.
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ITV's From the Heart: Thousands join donor register
From the Heart - the quick link to taking part
VIDEO: Fred and Sangeeta have a QR Code on screen. This Quick Response Code can take you to our website instantly, via your mobile phone. Fred and Sangeeta explain how the QR Code works and link into tonight's item in the series, From The Heart.
From The Heart: Hope for the future after family tragedy
VIDEO: Fred has compiled this evening's From The Heart item. Russell Holmes died suddenly from a brain haemorrhage in 2008. Freds spoke to his mother Pauline at her home in Southampton and learned about a family event that is bringing her some hope for the future.
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Facts and figures, myths and legends of organ donation
While 90% of people believe donating an organ is the right thing to do - only 30% are signed up to the organ donor register.
Read the full storyFrom the heart, Sangeeta says 'Be a donor'
ITV's From the Heart campaign encourages people to save a life by donating an organ. There are always 10,000 people across the UK waiting for a transplant. Three of them die every day.
But the problem is most acute among the Black and Asian communities. They are more prone to kidney disease and it's much safer if they can receive organs from their own communities because of problems matching blood and tissue types.
Nearly 3,000 people in the UK in need of an organ transplant are from minority groups. Yet just 0.4% of people on the organ donors register are black, and only 1.3% are from the Asian community.
Sangeeta has been to Oxford to investigate and meets Dr Paul Harden, consultant transplant physician, Dr Jasdev Singh Rai, of the British Sikh Consultative Forum and kidney donor Juanita Sackey.
From the Heart: 'Anxiety about donation'
Consultant transplant physician Dr Paul Harden, from Oxford, says there's an 'anxiety about donation' and a lot of misconceptions about the risks involved. Every day 3 people will die waiting for a transplant, due to the desperate shortage of donor organs.
There are currently ten thousand people waiting for a transplant, and none of them know whether they will get the call in time. We'll be exploring the issue of organ donation in our From the Heart series this week.
From the Heart: 'Religious objections don't stop donors'
Dr Jasder Singh Rai – General Secretary of the Sikh Consultative Forum – says reluctance to donate in ethnic minorities is not because of religious objections. Rather it is a problem of cultural differences and superstition.
We'll be looking at this issue in more depth in our series of special features this week.
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From the Heart: Being an organ donor
Jeffrey’s sister Juanita Sackey explained how she was apprehensive about donating her kidney, but it was far easier than she expected. She's now leading a completely normal life - working full time - and living life to the full. She's hoping to encourage more people to donate their organs.
From the Heart: Jeffrey's story
We are launching an exciting new campaign to help save thousands of lives and we want your help. Every day 3 people will die waiting for a transplant, due to the desperate shortage of donor organs.
There are currently ten thousand people waiting for a transplant, and none of them know whether they will get the call in time - life is a lottery on the transplant list and we want to try and change it. So, all this week we'll be looking at the issue and speaking to people like Jeffrey.
Jeffrey was badly ill with kidney disease 3 years ago. He tells Sangeeta that having a transplant changed his life.
ITV's From the Heart: Thousands join donor register
During our week-long campaign - 9,055 people signed up to the register in our region - compared to just 818 during the same period in 2012.
Read the full storyITV's From the Heart...Join the organ register today
Next week, ITV is launching an exciting new campaign that will hopefully improve the chances of thousands of people waiting for an organ transplant. It's called From The Heart and it involves you. Here's Stacey Poole with the details.