Tissue and eye services

Thanks to our donors and their families, we’re able to provide tissue to repair or rebuild the bodies, faces and lives of severely injured people.

Our specialist tissue donation nurses are responsible for the coordination of tissue donation after death. They provide support and assistance to newly bereaved families, and ensure tissues are donated in accordance with the wishes of our donors and their loved ones.

Registering to be a tissue donor is quick and easy.

You can choose to donate tissue, such as skin, bone, tendons, eyes, heart values and arteries after your death. Or, you can donate some tissue when you’re alive, for example, removed bone following a hip replacement.

Mothers who have had their babies safely delivered by elective caesarean section can donate amniotic membrane.

Alex was born with a rare heart disease, which meant he had no pulmonary valve. Alex needed two heart valve transplants before he was 2 years old to survive.