Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of kidney patients not receiving a transplant due to the covid-19 outbreak on (a) one year and (b) five year survival rates.

No assessment has yet been made. However, NHS Blood and Transplant is actively collecting data on the impact of COVID-19 for those patients on a waiting list for a kidney transplant, or for those who had received a transplant, and who had then contracted COVID-19. Similarly, the Renal Registry has been keeping the relevant data for dialysis patients. Early data show that both dialysis patients and those who are immunosuppressed for a kidney transplant are more vulnerable to the COVID-19.

NHS England, NHS Improvement and NHS Blood and Transplant do routinely monitor, and report on, the outcome data for all organ recipients and patients on the waiting list including one and five-year survival rates.