St Paul's Eye Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
Br J Anaesth. 2012 Jan;108 Suppl 1:i43-7. doi: 10.1093/bja/aer398.
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) was established in 2005 as a Special Health Authority when the National Blood Authority and UK Transplant merged. This helped to bring tissue banking and organ transplantation services under one umbrella organization. This merger means that ~!95% of all deceased donors (whether tissue, organ or both) are now facilitated by one organization. NHSBT Tissue Services is the largest tissue establishment in the UK, and is a multi-tissue bank that specializes in the consent, retrieval, processing, storage, and dispatch of donated tissue coordinated from a purpose built, state-of-the-art tissue bank in Liverpool. Tissue donations can come from either tissue-only donors or solid organ donors who also donate tissue. Annually there are ~450 multi-tissue donors and 2500 eye donors in the UK, resulting in many thousands of transplants, including 3564 cornea transplants in 2010-2011. The separation of tissue- and organ-specific donors is largely artificial, and while organ transplantation can be life-saving, tissue transplantation can also have a dramatic effect on a patient's quality of life. It is hoped that all donors, both organ and tissue, will be recognized for the gift they make to society after their death.
NHS 血液与移植署（NHSBT）成立于 2005 年，是国家血液管理局和英国移植协会合并后成立的一个特殊卫生署。这有助于将组织库和器官移植服务纳入一个组织。此次合并意味着，现在，!95%的所有已故捐献者（无论捐献的是组织、器官还是两者兼有）都由一个组织来协助完成。NHSBT 组织服务部是英国最大的组织机构，是一个多组织库，专门负责从位于利物浦的一个专门建造的、最先进的组织库中协调同意、检索、处理、储存和派遣捐献的组织。组织捐献可以来自仅捐献组织的捐献者，也可以来自同时捐献组织和实体器官的捐献者。英国每年有450 名多组织捐献者和 2500 名眼捐献者，这导致了数千次移植，包括 2010-2011 年的 3564 例角膜移植。组织和器官特异性捐献者的分离在很大程度上是人为的，虽然器官移植可以救命，但组织移植也可以显著改善患者的生活质量。人们希望所有的捐献者，无论是器官捐献者还是组织捐献者，在死后都能因其对社会的贡献而得到认可。
