Like 37% of Scots I’ve signed an organ donation card. Yet up to 90% of Scots indicate they support organ donation in the event of their death. That’s another 53% who could give the gift of life to someone after their own death.

That’s why I’m backing the Evening Times Campaign to persuade the Scottish Government to launch an ‘opt-out’ system of organ donation in which everyone is automatically placed on the donor register.

It would mean that, unless people opted out, hospitals would be allowed to use their organs for transplants.

Every day it is estimated that 3 people die in the UK while waiting for an organ transplant. A system of presumed consent could therefore literally save thousands of lives.

Please sign the Evening Times Petition at:

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/go/optin

and join the organ register at:

https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/ukt/RegistrationForm.do

Here is a good video from my colleague Alex Cole-Hamilton explaining why he backs Organ Donation