Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were on the organ donation waiting list in the North West on 10 March 2023.
NHS Blood and Transplant are responsible for organ donation in the United Kingdom. The following tables shows data transplant waiting list numbers for the North West as of 13 March 2023. Suspended indicates the patient has been temporarily removed from the list. This happens for such reasons as being too ill to undergo the operation or being absent.
Organ | Active | Suspended | Total |
Kidney | 598 | 524 | 1122 |
Kidney/pancreas | 43 | 38 | 81 |
Kidney & pancreas is | 5 | 2 | 7 |
Pancreas | 2 | 10 | 12 |
Pancreas islets | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Heart | 36 | 25 | 61 |
Lung(s) | 33 | 3 | 36 |
Liver | 80 | 14 | 94 |
Intestinal | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Other multi organ | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Total | 801 | 618 | 1419 |