Preparing for a liver transplant

Discover why you may need a liver transplant and how a transplant can affect your life.

Before you can have a transplant, your transplant team will need to assess your health to make sure that your surgery can happen safely. Find out which healthcare professionals you will meet during your assessment, what tests and you will have and when you will get the results.

Once your assessment is done, you will be booked in for transplant surgery or added to the transplant list. Find out about the two main types of organ donation, how to manage your health while waiting for transplant surgery and what to do when going to the hospital.