article_snippet: Experts say donor organs are declining in quality with more now coming from the elderly or those damaged by lifestyle.
article_snippet: NHS NHS is trying to increase the numbers of willing organ donors because so many patients are dying waiting for transplants.
article_snippet: Dr Titus Augustine, director of transplantation at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, told the newspaper: 'One of the things that Dr Titus Augustine, director of transplantation at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have been looking at is trying to match risk with risk. '
article_snippet: Last year, a research proposal looking into high-risk organ donation emerged that at least a quarter of all transplants that took place
article_snippet: Figures obtained from NHS Blood and Transplant, the authority which oversees donations, show that Last year, 333 patients were given high-risk organs.
article_snippet: This represented a quarter of the 1,320 transplanted and included donors who were former addicts, cancer sufferers or those aged over 71.
article_snippet: The vast majority of transplants that do take place in the UK are successful and that’s due to the dedication and hard work of the whole transplant community.
article_snippet: – there were 4,655 transplants, an increase of 10 per cent on the year before.
highlights_snippet: NHS is trying to increase the number of organ donors due to a shortage .
  
highlights_snippet: More and more people are dying while More and more people wait for organ transplants .
  
highlights_snippet: Comes after figures showed a quarter of transplants in 2013 involved 'high-risk' organs .