HC Deb 22 July 1991 vol 195 cc408-9W
Sir Michael McNair-Wilson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will give the total number of transplant operations that have taken place in the United Kingdom since 1961; and if he will list the numbers who have benefited from cornea, heart, kidney, liver, lung and pancreas transplants.

Year Cadaveric kidneys Heart Heart/lung Liver Lung Pancreas Cornea1
1972 438 N/K
1973 470 N/K
1974 503 N/K
1975 616 N/K
1976 604 N/K
1977 691 N/K
1978 849 N/K
1979 842 3 N/K
1980 988 25 N/K
1981 905 24 N/K
1982 1,033 36 N/K
1983 1,144 53 1 20 N/K
1984 1,443 116 10 51 N/K
1985 1,336 137 37 88 10 529
1986 1,493 176 51 127 3 6 770
1987 1,485 243 72 172 4 8 961
1988 1,575 274 101 241 16 8 1,270
1989 1,732 295 94 295 39 1,758
1990 1,730 329 95 359 52 5 2,135

All figures prior to 1978 were collected manually and should be viewed with caution.

1 Not all cornea transplants are recorded centrally and the actual figures are known to be higher.

Source: The United Kingdom Transplant Support Service Authority formerly the United Kingdom Transplant Service.