Donor information

What donating involves, who can donate, the tests required and the law that governs it.

1. Understand donation

2. Check eligibility

3. Donor tests

4. Legal & documents

Donor education pages are being authored and medically reviewed before publication. The tests checklist and the legal requirements below are already available.

Donor Eligibility & Tests

Every transplant centre runs its own donor evaluation before the Authorisation Committee reviews a case. 16 evaluation steps are listed across the organs we cover — blood tests, imaging, cardiac assessment, infection screening, HLA typing and crossmatch.

See the donor tests checklist

Legal Requirements & Documents

All documents

Authorisation Committee application (non-relative donor) Living donor · Non-relative (Authorisation Committee)

Mandatory

Deceased donor consent record Deceased donor

Mandatory

Proof of donor–recipient relationship Living donor · Near relative

Mandatory

Talk to Donor Counselling

A counsellor can explain the evaluation, the paperwork and what the Authorisation Committee looks at — before you commit to anything.

Request Donor Counselling

By organ

Swap / Paired Donation

Swap donation is covered here as an educational topic only — what it is and how to raise it with a transplant centre's Authorisation Committee. TransplantOcare does not operate a donor-matching system.