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Organ donation: Can Scotland learn from Spain's opt-out system?

At the moment in Scotland, if you want to help someone else after you die by donating your organs, you have to opt-in to a scheme. But in a year's time, that will change. From then, it'll be assumed you agree to donate your organs unless you say otherwise.

Spain has the highest rate of organ donation in the world. Our Health Correspondent Lisa Summers travelled to Barcelona to see how a similar scheme is working in practice there.

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