Organ donation should be 'normal': experts

ACCESS to donated organs should be a human right and donation should become a normal practice in Australia, a Sydney forum has heard.

Organ donation expert Holly Northam says organ and tissue donation should be "normalised" so more donor families are willing to consent.

She says there is a critical need for advocates in hospitals to support donor families through the donation process.

"We need to ... make it easier for Australians, so that it is a normal thing to become organ and tissue donors and we all feel good about it," the Canberra University academic told a panel in Sydney's Town Hall on Tuesday.

She said organ and tissue donation was was 'normal' in Spain, where the system was widely lauded, but not a standard part of end-of-life care in Australia.

"It is something that should be a human right. We should all be able to have that right."

The panel, organised by organ donation societies, heard Australia had failed to meet a target to make it the world leader in organ donation transplantation, despite the government chipping in $150 million towards that goal in 2008.

Organ recipient and ShareLife founder Brian Myerson said the system would need "total reform" to meet that target.

"We need leadership right from the top to ensure that we have a national program that runs the system consistently," he said.

"We are now 22nd in the world (on organ donation transplantation). There are very few things that Australia is 22nd at."

Transplant surgeon Allan Glanville said families needed to discuss their wishes regarding organ donation.

"Everybody will be touched by or involved in organ donation in some way," he said.

On Sunday, the government announced funding of $1.3 million for a trial to subsidise paid leave for living donors taking time off work.

Prof Glanville said while the funding was welcomed, more needed to be done to support donor families.

"You would not have transplants without the donor families."

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