‘Talk to your family about organ donation’

“The bigger message is to have the donation conversation with your loved ones so they know your donation wishes should the time ever arise. “Don’t debate – donate.” There were about 210 people waiting for a transplant in West Yorkshire as of August 2017.

Between 2012 and 2017, 736 people in West Yorkshire received transplants. About 220 donors who had died during the same period gave their organs.

Next Friday, February 23, Geoffrey Robinson MP will present a Private Members’ Bill in the House of Commons to change organ donation laws in England to an opt out system, following the Daily Mirror’s Change the Law for Life campaign.

But it needs MPs to turn up for the Bill to proceed.

Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have both backed a change in the law.

Lloyd Embley, Daily Mirror editor in chief, said there were seriously ill people lying in hospitals across the country waiting for some hope – hope that often doesn’t come.

He said: “By changing the law on organ donation there will be more hope for more very sick people that they may receive a transplant operation and be able to start living again.

“I struggle to see what MPs could be doing next Friday morning which is more important than saving lives.

“Please, please encourage them