Organs: Donors
(asked on 28th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people are on the organ donation waiting list in the West Midlands as of 28 November 2022; what the average waiting time was for an organ donation in the West Midlands in the latest period for which data is available; how many organ transplants took place in the West Midlands in the latest period for which data is available; and how many people were taken off the waiting list for an organ donation due to a clinical decision in the West Midlands in (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021.
The following table shows the number of patients on the transplant waiting list in the West Midlands as of 28 November 2022. Suspended patients refers to those who have been temporarily removed from the list.
Active | Suspended | Total | |
Total | 687 | 431 | 1,118 |
Source: NHS Blood and Transplant
NHS Blood and Transplant does not hold the data on the average waiting time for organ donation in the West Midlands or the number of people removed from the waiting list in the West Midlands due to a clinical decision.
The following table shows the number of transplants which took place in the West Midlands in 2021/22 and 2022/23 as of 28 November.
2021/22 | 2022/23 to date | |
Total | 377 | 260 |
Source: NHS Blood and Transplant