Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Government is taking to ensure that no organ is declined due to a lack of resource after the implementation of the Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act 2019.

The organ allocation systems in place ensure that when an individual centre refuses an organ, that organ is offered within an agreed sequence to other centres. Data on organ utilisation is captured and published.

NHS England and NHS Improvement originally asked for provider responses on capacity and capability assessments to be returned by the end of October 2019 and local discussions on those assessments are ongoing.

The new United Kingdom strategy for organ donation and transplantation to be published later this year by NHS Blood and Transplant will set out actions to improve organ utilisation across all organs taking into account the impact of the Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act 2019.