Organs: Donors
(asked on 27th April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many (a) heart, (b) lung, (c) liver, (d) kidney and (e) cornea transplant donations there have been in each of the last five years.
Information on the number of transplant donations per year in the United Kingdom is available in the following table.
Organ(s) transplanted | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
Kidney (deceased) | 1,954 | 1,917 | 1,932 | 2,142 | 2,255 |
Kidney (live) | 1,082 | 1,070 | 1,024 | 995 | 985 |
Kidney/pancreas | 190 | 171 | 175 | 147 | 176 |
Heart | 186 | 177 | 187 | 205 | 180 |
Lung(s) | 203 | 187 | 195 | 165 | 187 |
Heart/lung | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 8 |
Liver (deceased) | 825 | 861 | 817 | 887 | 936 |
Liver (live) | 21 | 24 | 25 | 19 | 23 |
Cornea* | 6,602 | 6,076 | 5,959 | 5,719 | 5,816 |
Source: NHS Blood and Transplant and *Human Tissue Authority.