§ Sir Anthony GrantTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many liver transplant operations were conducted in Britain in the last 10 years; and how many such patients died within one year of the operation.
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§ Mr. DorrellAccording to information supplied by the United Kingdom transplant service the number of liver transplants performed in NHS hospitals in the United Kingdom since 1982 were:
Numbers 1982 21 1983 20 1984 51 1985 88 1986 127 1987 172 1988 241 1989 295 1990 1359 1 Provisional. Information on survival rates is not collected centrally. However a recent study at the Queen Elizabeth hospital, Birmingham indicated that the one-year survival rate had risen from 20 to 30 per cent. before 1980 to a current level of over 60 per cent.