Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to improve the matching of donated lungs with people waiting for lung transplants.

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) in collaboration with clinicians, organ advisory groups and other interested parties, is in the process of reviewing the current lung allocation process.

This review will consider proposals for a national lung allocation scheme and the processes and systems needed to implement this.

NHSBT continues to work closely with clinicians to ensure donated organs are used for transplantation wherever appropriate.