Organs: Donors
(asked on 19th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) heart, (b) lungs, (c) liver, (d) kidney and (e) cornea transplant donations there have been in each of the last five years.
The information requested is in the following tables.
Data extracted from the UK Transplant Registry as at January 2016 on all United Kingdom deceased organ donors in each of the last five financial years.
2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | Total | |
Number of deceased organ donors | 1,010 | 1,088 | 1,212 | 1,320 | 1,282 | 5,912 |
Number of organs donated: | ||||||
Hearts | 126 | 136 | 144 | 204 | 175 | 785 |
Lungs | 362 | 366 | 413 | 450 | 391 | 1,982 |
Livers | 712 | 783 | 825 | 932 | 924 | 4,176 |
Kidneys | 1,889 | 2,032 | 2,265 | 2,469 | 2,387 | 11,042 |
Corneas | 340 | 359 | 378 | 461 | 401 | 1,939 |
Source: NHS Blood and Transplant
Data extracted from the UK Transplant Registry as at January 2016 on all UK living organ donors in each of the last five financial years*.
Living Donors | 2010/11 | 2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | Total |
Kidney | 1,021 | 1,006 | 1,067 | 1,114 | 1,049 | 5,257 |
Liver | 21 | 38 | 31 | 28 | 38 | 156 |
Source: NHS Blood and Transplant
*Not including those transplants where the recipient receives an organ (s) from a donor, but is able to donate one of their organs to another.