<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.3333px;">The UK government has announced new plans to change the law for organ and tissue donation to address the urgent need for organs within the Indian-origin communities in the country. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The proposed new system of consent for organ and tissue donation is expected to come into effect in England in 2020, as part of a drive to help black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people desperately waiting for a life-saving transplant.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The announcement comes as a recent report called on the National Health Service (NHS) to take more proactive action to address the high death rate among Indian-origin people in Britain due to low levels of organ donation within the community. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">NHS found that 21 per cent of people who died on the organ donation waiting list in the UK last year were from a BAME background, compared with 15 per cent a decade ago.</span><br />'' <span style="font-weight: bold; color: #222222;"> </span>