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Deborah Gosling met recipient Corinne Hutton to support the NHS Blood and Transplant campaign for more people to donate organs and tissue to save and improve lives.

Waiting lists are currently their highest in a decade and there is an urgent need for more people to support donation on the NHS Organ Donor Register.

Deborah’s twin sister Julie Wild, a mum of two boys and a phlebotomist at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, died of a sudden brain haemorrhage in January 2019, aged 51.

Her pancreas, liver, and both kidneys were all donated for lifesaving and life improving transplants.

Her family also agreed to donate her hands through NHS Blood and Transplant to the special hand transplant programme at Leeds Teaching Hospitals.

Hand transplants are not part of the NHS Organ Donor Register but if the donor is a match for an individual patient in the programme, the NHSBT specialist nurses can raise the option of hand donation.

NHSBT Blood and Transplant arranges meetings when both parties wish to meet. Deborah and Corinne agreed to meet and also be filmed to help promote organ, tissue, and hand donation.