Organ Donation

Monthly statistics

Transplant Update - financial year to the end of October 2009

National Transplant Database activity for the period 1 April 2009 - 31 October 2009 and patients actively waiting for a transplant at 31 October 2009, with comparable figures for the same period in 2008 - 2009.

Deceased donors
Organ
	2009-2010	2008-2009	% change
Deceased Heartbeating	353	359	-2
Deceased Non-heartbeating	178	161	11
Total Deceased Donors	531	520	2
Cornea Only	1060	987	7

 

Transplants from deceased donors
Organ
	2009-2010	2008-2009	% change
Kidney	821	811	1
Kidney & Pancreas	91	96	-5
Pancreas	22	30	-27
Pancreas islets	7	2	-
Total Renal	941	939	0
Heart	78	78	0
Heart & Lung	3	2	-
Lung(s)	83	81	2
Total Thoracic	164	161	2
Liver/Liver Lobe	367	388	-5
Other Multi-organ	13	12	8
Total Solid Organ Transplants	1485	1500	-1
Cornea	1639	1510	9

 

Transplants from living donors
Organ
	2009-2010	2008-2009	% change
Kidney	565	556	2
Heart (domino)	0	0	-
Liver/Liver Lobe	12	25	-52
Lung Segment	0	0	-
Total Transplants	577	581	-1

 

Registered for a transplant (excluding those suspended for health, personal or other reasons)
Organ
	31.10.2009	31.10.2008	% change
Kidney	6997	7002	0
Kidney & Pancreas	289	232	25
Pancreas	53	46	15
Total Renal	7339	7280	1
Heart	110	84	31
Heart & Lung	11	12	-8
Lung(s)	244	223	9
Total Thoracic	365	319	14
Liver	393	331	19
Other (multi-organ)	26	29	-10
Total Waiting	8123	7959	2

Organ donor and transplant statistics on this page are recorded by financial year to reflect new funding initiatives aimed at increasing opportunities for organ donation.

Percentage changes are shown where both activity rates for the time periods being compared are at least ten.

These figures are provisional, as currently recorded by NHS Blood and Transplant, and might be subject to slight modification.

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