Transplant Surgery: North West
(asked on 13th March 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time for an organ donation in the North West region was in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
NHS Blood and Transplant are responsible for organ donation in the United Kingdom. Listing of registrations is by transplant centre rather than by patient address, therefore the following table shows the most recent median waiting times by organ and by centre.
Organ | Manchester Transplant | Liverpool Transplant Centre | Leeds Transplant Centre |
Kidney | 526 days | 425 days | N/A |
Pancreas | 272 days | N/A | N/A |
Lung | 272 days | N/A |
|
Liver | N/A | N/A | 74 days |
Heart non urgent transplant list | 856 days |
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Heart urgent or super urgent transplant list | Super urgent: | N/A | N/A |
Urgent: |