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Organ transplantation on the NHS is safe from the kind of scandal currently rocking Germany, one of the Britain?s top transplant surgeons has said.
Doctors in Germany have been accused of manipulating patients? results to make them appear more ill than they are, enabling them to ?jump the queue? and qualify for a donor?s liver sooner.
Some are said to have received bonus payments for every liver they transplanted. Others are believed to have come under pressure to maximise the number of transplants to increase the prestige of their hospitals.
This has led to them manipulating their patients? results, for example by mixing urine into blood samples to make it appear their kidneys were failing too.
At least 107 cases of manipulation are being investigated by German authorities, according to The Guardian.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...lantation-safe-from-German-style-scandal.html
Doctors in Germany have been accused of manipulating patients? results to make them appear more ill than they are, enabling them to ?jump the queue? and qualify for a donor?s liver sooner.
Some are said to have received bonus payments for every liver they transplanted. Others are believed to have come under pressure to maximise the number of transplants to increase the prestige of their hospitals.
This has led to them manipulating their patients? results, for example by mixing urine into blood samples to make it appear their kidneys were failing too.
At least 107 cases of manipulation are being investigated by German authorities, according to The Guardian.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...lantation-safe-from-German-style-scandal.html