Transplant Surgery: British Nationals Abroad

(asked on 1st April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford on 19 March (HL14255), how they have concluded that "very few patients in the UK choose" to travel abroad for organ transplants.


This question was answered on 10th April 2019

United Kingdom citizens are advised against travelling to less well-regulated countries to seek an organ transplant.

Data is not collected on people entering the UK who may have had a transplant in another country. Such transplant recipients may or may not become apparent to the National Health Service but the Government does not have any evidence of large-scale travel of British citizens to other regions seeking a transplant. There are no current plans to review the Human Tissue Act 2004.

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