HC Deb 18 April 1990 vol 170 c873W
Mr. Paice

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many heart transplant operations have been conducted in(a) Harefield hospital and (b) Papworth hospital in each of the last 12 years.

Mr. Freeman

Available information from Harefield and Papworth hospitals, for the 11 years from 1979 to 1989, is shown in the table.

Harefield Papworth
Heart Heart/lung Heart Heart/lung
1979 3
1980 14 11
1981 13 13
1982 21 16
1983 34 1 19
1984 78 7 39 3
1985 87 31 44 6
1986 109 42 52 10
1987 140 55 58 15
1988 133 69 58 22
1989 131 53 53 17

Mr. Paice

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients who have undergone heart transplant operations in the last 12 years have died either as a primary or secondary result of cytomegalavirus.

Mr. Freeman

The information requested is not collected centrally.

Back to