For many years, TSANZ has developed eligibility criteria for patients to be listed for organ transplantation and protocols for the allocation of organs to patients once listed. You can view the previous protocols online.
As part of the implementation of the National Reform Agenda – A World’s Best Practice Approach to Organ and Tissue Donation for Transplantation - and one of its key initiatives of ensuring
safe, equitable and transparent national transplantation processes, TSANZ received funding from the Australian Organ and Tissue Authority to:
- develop nationally uniform eligibility criteria to ensure there are equitable and transparent criteria for listing patients for organ transplantation; and
- develop nationally uniform allocation protocols to ensure consistency across Australia in the criteria by which donated organs and tissues are allocated.
Based on revision and updating of previous eligibility and allocation criteria underpinned by extensive consultation, TSANZ released the Organ Transplantation From Deceased Donors: Consensus Statement on Eligibility Criteria and Allocation Protocols Version 1.1 on 23 June 2011.
Subsequent reviews undertaken by the TSANZ Advisory Committees have necessitated further changes to the Consensus Statement , leading to the release of Version 1.2 of this document on 16 May 2012.
Download Organ Transplantation from Deceased Donors - Eligibility Guidelines and Allocation Protocols Vs 1.2 (pdf)
2010 NOMS Analysis
Download 2010 NOMS Analysis (pdf)