Organ Donation with Professor Dan Harvey and Dr Ben Ivory

Recorded at the ICS State of the Art 2025 meeting in Birmingham, Jonny sits down with two of the UK's leading voices in deceased organ donation: Professor Dan Harvey and Dr Ben Ivory. This is the conversation every intensivist has to get right, and the one most of us still feel underprepared for. Dan and Ben walk through how we counsel families at the end of life, how we keep the donation conversation compassionate rather than confrontational, and how we handle the controversies that still sit just under the surface of UK practice. They talk about what good documentation actually looks like when the notes are later read by a family, a coroner or a complaint investigator; who to pull into the room early; SNODs, CLODs, chaplaincy, senior colleagues and how that support changes both the quality of the conversation and the risk of things going wrong afterwards. Practical, honest and grounded in the realities of the UK pathway - essential listening for us all!