Our Trust has an excellent record for ensuring people who want to become organ donors are able to achieve their final wishes. In this very sensitive area of health care our teams are amongst the best in the Yorkshire and Humber area ensuring as many people who do wish to become donors go on to do so.

Last year 14 people were able to become donors due to the sensitive expertise of colleagues at CHFT. And to share the expertise further on Friday May 22 we are holding our first training session in the simulation suite at HRI to extend skills and awareness for all colleagues whose roles may involve them in the organ donation process. 

We are aiming to recreate a real-life situation involving a person who has died and all their family and our colleagues who will be supporting them through the process.

Our Transplant Coordinator Jayne Greenhalgh, pictured at last year's health fair, and clinical lead for organ donation, anaesthetist Tim Jackson will host the day.  Tim said: "It is very important that colleagues can be trained in a situation which is as close to as real as possible with all the challenges, tensions and emotions involved. Our teams at CHFT care and support families with tremendous empathy yet we always know there maybe ways in which we can be better. This training will be invaluable and once we have trained our colleagues we hope to make the sessions open to other trusts."