Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of kidneys retrieved from donors are transplanted into recipients.
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% |
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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% |
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Heart | 2013-14 | 97% | - | 97% |
| 2012-13 | 100% | - | 100% |
| 2011-12 | 100% | - | 100% |
| 2010-11 | 97% | - | 97% |
| 2009-10 | 98% | - | 98% |
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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