Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in England and Wales are currently considered eligible for lung transplantation.
We are advised by NHS Blood and Transplant that, as at 24 July 2014, there were 72 patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis resident in England and Wales considered eligible for lung transplantation and currently listed for a lung transplant (where the primary disease is recorded as fibrosing lung disease).