Closing the Gap

Closing the Gap

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Testing donors for emerging infectious diseases

Finalist | Keeping people safe and healthy Organ & Tissue Donation Service, Nucleic Acid Testing (NAT) Laboratory - Prince of Wales Hospital

Screen­ing donor organs for infec­tious dis­eases and com­pat­i­bil­i­ty in just a few hours can be the dif­fer­ence between life and death for patients await­ing transplant.

With a short­age of organs, more donors deemed as hav­ing an ‘increased risk’ of undi­ag­nosed infec­tions from drug use, incar­cer­a­tion or recent tat­toos, are being accept­ed fol­low­ing devel­op­ment of new screen­ing meth­ods for dead­ly pathogens.

The NSW Organ and Tis­sue Dona­tion Ser­vice (OTDS) and the TGA-licensed NSW Health Pathol­o­gy Nucle­ic Acid Test­ing (NSWHP NAT) Lab­o­ra­to­ry at Prince of Wales Hos­pi­tal are a team of ded­i­cat­ed clin­i­cal pathol­o­gists, lab­o­ra­to­ry sci­en­tists and dona­tion spe­cial­ists work­ing a 24/7 ros­ter to respond when­ev­er a donor organ becomes avail­able, deliv­er­ing results with­in a crit­i­cal 8‑hour timeframe.

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NSW Health Pathology acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land across NSW whose cultures and customs have nurtured and continue to nurture this land. We would like to pay our respects to the Elders past, present and emerging, for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the state.

Aboriginal Workforce Development Closing the Gap

NSW Health Pathology acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land across NSW whose cultures and customs have nurtured and continue to nurture this land. We would like to pay our respects to the Elders past, present and emerging, for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the state.

Aboriginal Workforce Development Closing the Gap
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