There will be an independent review after the NHS transplant authority confirmed 21 cases in which the wrong organs may have been taken from donors.
Up to 800,000 people on the UK donor register may have had their preferences about which organs they wished to donate recorded incorrectly.
Health Secretary Andy Burnham said he regretted the error but it should not stop people from donating.
The BMA warned public confidence could be damaged.
NHS Blood and Transplant apologised and said only people in Scotland, England and Wales who had registered as donors using their driving licence application form were potentially affected.
While many of the 17m registered donors give consent for all their organs to be used for transplant after their death, some have withheld consent for certain organs - such as their eyes.
For the last 10 years however, the details of some donors’ preferences have been wrongly recorded because of a technical error.
Read more at BBC Health.
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