The nine measures of the national reform package aim to establish Australia as a world leader in best practice organ and tissue donation for transplantation and to achieve a significant and lasting increase in the number of life-saving and life-transforming transplants.
Learning from international and national experience, and based on the Australian context and local expertise, the nine measures of the reform package are:
Measure 1: A new national approach and system - a national authority and network of organ and tissue donation agencies
Measure 2: Specialist hospital staff and systems dedicated to organ donation
Measure 3: New funding for hospitals
Measure 4: National professional education and awareness
Measure 5: Coordinated, ongoing community awareness and education
Measure 6: Support for donor families
Measure 7: Safe, equitable and transparent national transplantation process
Measure 8: National eye and tissue donation and transplantation network
Measure 9: Additional national initiatives, including living donation programs
