Speeches

Jim Shannon – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2016-01-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) heart, (b) lungs, (c) liver, (d) kidney and (e) cornea transplant donations there have been in each of the last five years.

Jane Ellison

The information requested is in the following tables.

Data extracted from the UK Transplant Registry as at January 2016 on all United Kingdom deceased organ donors in each of the last five financial years.

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

Total

Number of deceased organ donors

1,010

1,088

1,212

1,320

1,282

5,912

Number of organs donated:

Hearts

126

136

144

204

175

785

Lungs

362

366

413

450

391

1,982

Livers

712

783

825

932

924

4,176

Kidneys

1,889

2,032

2,265

2,469

2,387

11,042

Corneas

340

359

378

461

401

1,939

Source: NHS Blood and Transplant

Data extracted from the UK Transplant Registry as at January 2016 on all UK living organ donors in each of the last five financial years*.

Living Donors

2010/11

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

Total

Kidney

1,021

1,006

1,067

1,114

1,049

5,257

Liver

21

38

31

28

38

156

Source: NHS Blood and Transplant

*Not including those transplants where the recipient receives an organ (s) from a donor, but is able to donate one of their organs to another.