Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support the use of heart in a box technology.

NHS Blood and Transplant, as the organ donation organisation for the United Kingdom, is supporting National Health Service hospitals’ research into perfusion technology and how it can enable more organs to be used for transplantation.

The National Institute for Health Research welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health and the Office for Life Sciences and NHS England advertise initiatives that support the uptake of innovations.