Neonatal organ donation for transplantation in the UK

We read with interest the article titled ‘First neonatal organ donation in the UK’ by Atreja and Godambe1 received widespread media coverage in the UK recently. The team should be commended for this milestone achievement. The surgical teams should also be congratulated for embracing the immense challenge of retrieving and transplanting kidneys from such a small donor, a feat which only handful of centres in the UK would undertake due to anxieties that we have previously described.2 ,3 Organ donation from very young donors is a rare occurrence in the UK, which is a testament to our outstanding neonatal and paediatric care but may also reflect overall lower donation rates compared with …