The Ministry of Health, together with the "Poltransplant" Organizational and Coordinating Center for Transplantation, is completing the project titled: "Supporting organ and tissue donation processes through the development and implementation of a hospital donation quality system and accreditation standards, as well as strengthening the competencies of hospital donation coordinators and management staff of health care entities." The project was co-financed by EU funds under the Operational Program Knowledge Education Development (POWER).
Support for organ and tissue donation processes - invitation
Published Dec. 19, 2023 10:00
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About 380 hospitals have been identified in Poland that meet the basic criteria for donation potential - they have an intensive care unit, stroke unit or neurosurgical intensive care unit. However, only 60 to 80 hospitals were actively reporting deceased donors with confirmed brain death. Approx. 10 hospitals reported 10 or more potential donors per year and accounted for about 35% of all reports. For hospital donations, reporting of potential tissue donors, including eye tissue, with no link to organ donation was also rare.
The main intention of the project was to increase the number of identified and qualified deceased organ and tissue donors, especially ocular tissues, among others, in intensive care units and stroke units throughout the country. At the same time, the aim of the project was to improve the knowledge and skills of transplant coordinators, as well as the management of medical entities.
In order to achieve the aforementioned goals, the project implemented the following activities from June 1, 2021 to November 30, 2023:
Ø Accreditation standards have been developed entitled. "Hospital quality system for organ and tissue donation";
Ø An implementation manual on the hospital quality system for organ and tissue donation for medical entities has been issued, in electronic form;
Ø 68 entities performing hospital medical activities were covered;
Ø 7 trainings were conducted on the hospital quality system for organ and tissue donation;
Ø 380 employees of medical entities, including the administration of the people's health system, were trained to improve the efficiency of the hospital quality system for organ and tissue donation;
Ø 45 visitors were trained;
Ø 51 accreditation visits were conducted to health care entities that have received accreditation certificates;
Ø 382 actual organ and tissue donors were reported by the participating medical entities;
The final activity of the project is the closing conference of the aforementioned project, which will be held on December 20 this year. The conference will be a forum for discussion and exchange of experiences of transplant coordinators, representatives of medical entities and representatives of institutions involved in the process of organ and tissue donation, so as to jointly lean on the problem of the number of donors and outline proposals for actions sustaining
and continuing the project's assumptions, which will contribute to the effective functioning of the area of organ and tissue donation.
The conference will be held on December 20, 2023 at the NOVOTEL Warszawa Centrum Hotel at 94/98 Marszalkowska Street
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