🏥 Over 28 million people in the UK are registered on the #NHS Organ Donor Register - yet 8,096 patients are still waiting. 276 of them are children. 436 died waiting in 2024-25. Every year, thousands of organs make a time-critical journey from donor to recipient. In 2024/25 alone, 4,583 organ transplants took place in the UK. Each one required a logistics chain where minutes matter, cold chain integrity is non-negotiable, and a single documentation failure can cost a life. Yet the systems managing that chain remain outdated, opaque, and unaccountable. ⛑️ Organ transplantation is an ethical minefield and Blockchain changes this calculus: → Immutable consent records from extraction to transplant → Real-time IoT monitoring of temperature and physical integrity → Smart contracts that halt transport if safe thresholds are breached → GDPR-compliant audit trails accessible to regulators → Zero-knowledge proofs that verify compliance without exposing patient data The peer-reviewed research published in the Journal of the British Blockchain Association #JBBA presents an Ethical Compliance Framework — and an end-to-end implementation scenario — for blockchain-enabled tissue and organ transportation. 🇮🇪 From Dr Malika Bendechache and Dr Elif Calik of University of Galway, Ireland. #Blockchain #Organ #Transplant #Tissue #NHS NHS England World Health Organization