Kidneys: Donors

(asked on 8th October 2018) - View Source
Questioner
Portrait
Glyn Davies
(Conservative - Montgomeryshire)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the total number of altruistic kidney organ donations has been in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by
Matt Hancock Portrait
Matt Hancock
This question was answered on 11th October 2018

Information on the number of altruistic donor kidney transplants from 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2018 is available in the following table.

Number of altruistic donor kidney transplants in the United Kingdom

2009/10

15

2010/11

28

2011/12

34

2012/13

76

2013/14

118

2014/15

107

2015/16

83

2016/17

84

2017/18

89

This information has been taken from the annual report on living donor kidney transplantation (Figure 4.10), published by NHS Blood and Transplant in September 2018, which is available online at the following link:

https://nhsbtdbe.blob.core.windows.net/umbraco-assets-corp/12257/nhsbt-living-donor-kidney-transplantation-annual-report-2017-2018.pdf

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