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NHS pays compensation to family for donor blunder

Payout and apology follows disarray in computer records on donation preferences

By Alanah Eriksen | 20 January 2012

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Organ donation: errors in records led to mistake

It is a way of showing they have mucked up – good and proper

Roger Goss, co-director, Patient Concern

UK health officials have agreed to pay compensation to the family of an organ donor whose heart was mistakenly taken for an operation.

The National Health Service has been plagued by problems with computer records on the wishes of would-be donors.

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