Transplantation is a highly successful medical therapy for saving lives and minimising suffering for those with kidney, liver or heart failure and for restoring sight to the blind.

Transplants deliver enormous health and economic benefits – increasingly relevant as our population ages and lifestyles change. Our transplant medical science is already achieving immense success rates – in the vicinity of 90%. It is no longer a miracle. It is a mainstream and established medical practice.

Mr Marvin Weinman, Chair ShareLife Australia, said "it is tragic that we as a community allow a large number of Australians to suffer or die needlessly because they are denied sufficient access to this established medical practice. We must, on an urgent basis put into place proven practices which will save Australian lives."

Australians are facing an ever-increasing gap between our need and the availability of organ transplants.

Australia is well behind the rest of the world; not because Australians don’t care, but because there are entrenched obstructions and misdirected and fragmented efforts.

ShareLife Australia

ShareLife Australia is a diverse group of community leaders and concerned citizens from all walks of life working to drive quantum improvement in the availability of transplants and stop Australians dying needlessly.

Our vision is for "Australia to lead the world in making transplants available for all who could benefit.

"When made aware of Australia's poor performance in making this highly effective therapy accessible to potentially themselves, their families, their friends and all Australian citizens, many people have wholeheartedly committed themselves to contributing their skills and experience to solving the problem", said Mr Marvin Weinman, Chair ShareLife Australia.

Over the last 2 years a diverse group of doctors (transplant, intensive care, neurology and other medical specialists), nurses and transplant coordinators, social workers, bankers, educators, marketers, economists, psychologists, company CEOs, management consultants and researchers have applied their skills and experience to fully understand the Australian issues and have looked towards world’s best practice for proven solutions to this problem.

ShareLife Australia, assisted by some of Australia’s best research and strategic advisory teams, have conducted a detailed analysis of both Australia’s performance in donor/transplant rates against international performance, our hospital practices across each state and territory and surveyed public and medical attitudes.

ShareLife Australia have also briefed senior government members – at state and federal level, the transplant and intensive care communities, hospital administrators, community leaders and religious leaders. They have received overwhelming support for the cause.

Why is ShareLife different?

ShareLife Australia has been pursuing an approach to generate quantum community change and dramatically improved transplant availability through:

• Implementing a business-like focus on outcomes rather than inputs
• Utilising independent and objectively sourced irrefutable data
• Influencing through participation – identifying and involving individuals and groups actively concerned with the issue
• Leveraging cross-functional networks and connections to broaden existing skills and experience
• Ensuring all sectors of the community (the population at large, medical and government) are making informed decisions
• Using well established proven change management techniques, and
• Maintaining independence through pro-bono support

ShareLife Australia Goals

• Progressively increase the yearly donor numbers per capita from 10 donors per million to 30 donors per million over 10 years
• Progressively increase the number of people receiving transplants from 700 per year to 2100 per year over the next 10 years

Our vision is for Australia to lead the world in making transplants available to all who could benefit