LONDON - An expert panel assembled in Britain to analyze the possibility of changing U.K. law on organ donation consent shared its recommendation today.  The panel, consisting of more than 20 medical professionals, lawyers and public health government officials, proposed that Britain does not change its current law so to automatically designate every person a donor unless they or their survivors opt out.

Current U.K. law provides that every person is automatically designated to not be a donor unless they register as one or their family decides to donate their organs after death.

With one of the lowest organ donation rates in all of Europe, U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said his government might change the law despite the recommendation of the panel.