§ Sir George Youngasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many kidney patients are currently on the waiting list for transplant operations.
§ Mr. Moyle1,123 patients in the United Kingdom were on the waiting list for a kidney transplant on 31st January 1978.
§ Sir George Youngasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many kidney transplants have taken place in each of the past five years.
§ Mr. MoyleThe following are the numbers of kidney transplants using cadaver kidneys recorded in the United Kingdom:
Year ending 30th June 1973 … … 449 1974 … … 476 1975 … … 599 1976 … … 580 1977 … … 671 In addition in the year ending 30th June 1977, 117 live donor transplants were recorded in the United Kingdom. This was the first year that records of the numbers of such transplants have been collected.