'Picking recipient means patients on a waiting list may die'
Di Franks, who is a kidney donor and also runs the Living Kidney Donation charity has told ITV News that she could never "pick a recipient", after a controversial US website launching in the UK allows donors to decide who gets their organs.
– Di FranksI am against people selecting a recipient mainly because it could mean that someone on the NHS waiting list dies waiting for a kidney and the person picking their recipient, their kidney could have been a match for the person on the waiting list.
Patients competing for kidneys on controversial website
In the US patients have found a controversial way of persuading people to donate a kidney, and the emotional appeals are coming to Britain.
UK kidney donors able to choose their own recipient
A website is launching to allow patients to plead for a kidney donor. It may persuade more people to donate as they choose who receives it.