Organs: Donors

(asked on 2nd July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of lungs retrieved from donors are transplanted into recipients.


Answered by
 Portrait
Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 7th July 2014

It is the responsibility of the transplanting surgeon to decide whether or not to accept a donor organ for transplant. This decision may be made both before retrieval and at retrieval, or occasionally at allocation. The following table shows those organs retrieved and subsequently transplanted over the last five years.

Percentage of organs retrieved that were subsequently transplanted

Organ

Year

DBD1

DCD2

Total Deceased donors

Lung

2013-14

93%

85%

92%

2012-13

92%

79%

90%

2011-12

96%

90%

95%

2010-11

90%

85%

89%

2009-10

85%

77%

84%

Kidney

2013-14

94%

87%

91%

2012-13

93%

82%

88%

2011-12

93%

87%

91%

2010-11

94%

85%

91%

2009-10

93%

87%

91%

Heart

2013-14

97%

-

97%

2012-13

100%

-

100%

2011-12

100%

-

100%

2010-11

97%

-

97%

2009-10

98%

-

98%

Liver

2013-14

95%

70%

89%

2012-13

91%

74%

87%

2011-12

92%

74%

88%

2010-11

92%

69%

88%

2009-10

93%

73%

89%

Source: NHS Blood and Transplant

1Donors who died after brain death

2Donors who died after circulatory death

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