The federal government has directed the United Network for Organ Sharing to pause some of its oversight work amid the government shutdown.

As the primary contractor for the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, UNOS manages the nation’s donation and transplant system, facilitating matches and monitoring patient outcomes.

While critical services — including operation of the organ matching system and responding to serious patient safety risks — will continue, the OPTN has been ordered to pause much of its routine oversight responsibilities. As a result, many committee meetings have been canceled, a UNOS spokesperson told Becker’s. One specific area of work being paused is the monitoring of reports for policy implementation on heart and lung transplants. 

“This committee wor

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