Asked by: Paul Flynn (Labour - Newport West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2017 to Question 1450, what the consent and authorisation rate was in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland in the 2016-17 financial year.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The information is set out in the table below. Further information can be found in NHS Blood and Transplant’s Annual Activity Report for 2016/17, which was published on 11 July:
http://www.odt.nhs.uk/statistics-and-reports/annual-activity-report/
Consent/authorisation rates for 2016/17 by nation
England 63%
Wales 64%
Scotland 63%
Northern Ireland 64%
Source: NHS Blood and Transplant
Asked by: Paul Flynn (Labour - Newport West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2017 to Question 1450, what the total cost of the UK Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020 Strategy has been to date.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The United Kingdom-wide ‘Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020 Strategy (2013)’ aims to optimise every part of the organ donation system in order to maximise the opportunities to save and transform lives, and builds on the significant progress that NHS Blood and Transplant and the National Health Service have made since the Organ Donation Task Force’s recommendations in 2008. As such, we are unable to provide the information in the form requested. The available information is shown in the table below and sets out the total amount of funding provided to NHS Blood and Transplant by the Department and the devolved administrations since the launch of the Strategy.
United Kingdom | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
£ millions | £ millions | £ millions | £ millions | £ millions | £ millions | |
Total | 62.93 | 64.20 | 65.51 | 73.90 | 73.90 | 73.90 |
Asked by: Paul Flynn (Labour - Newport West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2017 to Question 1450, on organ donors, if he will review that strategy to ensure it meets the target to achieve a consent rate of over 80 per cent by 2020.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
The 2020 Oversight Group (with membership from the Department and the devolved administrations, NHS Blood and Transplant, professional bodies and voluntary sector stakeholders) was set up to review the progress of the ‘UK Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020’ Strategy (2013). The Group reviewed the strategy in November 2016 and developed a supplementary action plan, including identifying new actions that might contribute to increasing consent rates. The Group continues to monitor the impact of these actions
Data for 2016/17 show the highest ever consent/authorisation rates, deceased organ donor and transplants rates but we want those rates to rise further, so everyone requiring a transplant stands the best chance of receiving one.
Asked by: Paul Flynn (Labour - Newport West)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the report, Taking organ transplantation to 2020: a detailed strategy, published in 2013, what progress his Department has made towards increasing consent rates for deceased organ donation to 80 per cent by 2020.
Answered by Jackie Doyle-Price
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is the organ donor organisation for the United Kingdom and is responsible for promoting organ donation and the matching and offering of donated organs.
The UK Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020 Strategy (2013) sets an ambitious target to achieve world class consent rates to donation after death of over 80% by 2020. One action to achieve this was the development of national strategies to promote a shift in behaviour to increase consent.
The consent/authorisation rate has increased, from 59% in 2013/14 to 63% in 2016/17 but is behind the Strategy’s target of 70% for 2016/17. The rates since 2013/14, and the Strategy target dates, are set out in the table below.
Consent/Authorisation1 rates by financial year
Financial year | 2020 Strategy2 target rate (%) | Actual rate (%) |
2013/14 | 61.5 | 59 |
2014/15 | 61.5 | 58 |
2015/16 | 64 | 62 |
2016/17 | 70 | 63 |
2017/18 | 70 | N/A |
2018/19 | 75 | N/A |
2019/20 | 80 | N/A |
Source – NHS Blood and Transplant
Notes:
1 Authorisation is the term used in Scotland for consent.
2 UK Taking Organ Donation to 2020 Strategy, July 2013
The 2020 Oversight Group (with membership from the Department and the Devolved Administrations, NHSBT, professional bodies and voluntary sector stakeholders) reviewed the strategy in November 2016. In addition to the specific actions recorded in the Strategy, the Oversight Group identified new actions that might contribute to increasing consent rates. These are outlined in the supplementary action plan available at:
https://nhsbtdbe.blob.core.windows.net/umbraco-assets-corp/2296/tot20-review.pdf
NHSBT has also introduced several operational initiatives to increase the consent rate, including: a new role within the Specialist Nurse – Organ Donation team that focuses on obtaining consent to build greater expertise and experience; and a number of communications and marketing initiatives to encourage people to sign up to the NHS Organ Donor Register and to tell their family of their wishes.