Speeches

Jim Shannon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-03-16.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many organ transplants there have been in each of the last five years.

Jane Ellison

The information on the number of successful and unsuccessful organ transplants performed in each of the last five years is shown in the following table. This includes single and multi-organ transplants containing kidney, pancreas, liver, heart, lung and/or intestinal from both deceased and living donors.

Although deceased donor rates were lower in 2014/15, data show that deceased donor rates for 2015/16 have exceeded 2014/15 rates. The official data are due to published in summer 2016.

Organ Transplants in the United Kingdom, 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2015

Financial year

Total number of organ transplants

Number of unsuccessful1 transplants

% unsuccessful

2010/2011

3,751

127

3.4%

2011/2012

3,971

131

3.3%

2012/2013

4,221

127

3.0%

2013/2014

4,656

143

3.1%

2014/2015

4,433

122

2.8%

Source: NHS Blood and Transplant

Notes:

1Unsuccessful has been defined as failed within the first two weeks after transplantation. This figure is based on 98% of transplant recipients where the two week post-transplant outcome is known.