The government says it will ban all private transplants of organs from dead donors in the UK.
The move comes after media reports of overseas patients paying to receive organs donated by British people.
An independent report said the public needed to be confident that scarce donor organs were allocated fairly within the NHS. Transplant surgeons said the ban would reassure the public that organs will go to those in greatest need.
Elisabeth Buggins, former chairwoman of the Organ Donation Taskforce, carried out an inquiry after allegations in a number of newspapers that organs from NHS donors were being given to patients from countries such as Greece and Italy.
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