Professor John Forsythe was the Medical Director for Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation in NHS Blood and Transplant from 2016, a position that he held through the pandemic, leading a team of senior clinicians and managers to support and sustain Donation, Retrieval and Transplant Services across the whole of the UK. He is now the Co-Chair of the Implementation Steering Group for Organ Utilisation in the Department of Health and Social services in the Government.