Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on the number of people who have been a recipient of a donated heart in each of the last five years.
The following table shows the number of people who have been a recipient of a donated heart by a deceased donor in each of the last five years.
Organ transplants | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 |
Heart | 183 | 172 | 159 | 175 | 212 |