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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Transplant Surgery: North West (13 March 2023)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time for an organ donation in the North West region was in the latest period for which data is available.

Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)

Answer

NHS Blood and Transplant are responsible for organ donation in the United Kingdom. Listing of registrations is by transplant centre rather than by patient address, therefore the following table shows the most recent median waiting times by organ and by centre.

Organ

Manchester Transplant

Liverpool Transplant Centre

Leeds Transplant Centre

Kidney
1 April 2016 to 31 March 2019

526 days

425 days

N/A

Pancreas
1 April 2016 to 31 March 2020

272 days

N/A

N/A

Lung
1 April 2018 and 31 March 2021

272 days

N/A


N/A

Liver
1 April 2018 and 31 March 2021

N/A

N/A

74 days

Heart non urgent transplant list
1 April 2015 to 31 March 2018

856 days



N/A



N/A

Heart urgent or super urgent transplant list
1 April 2018 to 31 March 2021

Super urgent:
34 days

N/A

N/A

Urgent:
18 days


Answered by:
Maria Caulfield (Conservative)
16 March 2023

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