Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people from BAME backgrounds have died as a result of there not being a blood, organ or stem cell donor who is a match.

NHS Blood and Transplant is responsible for the collection, manufacturing and issuing of blood products to the National Health Service in England; for organ and tissue donation in the United Kingdom; and for the British Bone Marrow Registry, to which it recruits registered blood donors to be potential stem cell donors.

NHS Blood and Transplant does not collect data in the form requested. The following table shows the most recent annual data on the ethnicity of the patients who have died whilst they were on the waiting list for an organ transplant, but this does not include patients who have died after being removed from the transplant waiting list or patients who were too ill to be added to the waiting list.

Source: NHS Blood and Transplant, 2018

The 2016 annual report of the independent UK haemovigilance scheme, Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT), shows no report of patients not being transfused or being under-transfused as a result of there not being a blood donor who was a match.