§ Mr. BattleTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many kidney transplants have been carried out by the NHS in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [168604]
§ Ms Rosie WintertonThe table shows kidney transplants in the United Kingdom, since April 1997 by financial year.
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Transplant type 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 Cadaveric kidney 1,426 1,309 1,359 1,308 1,264 1,337 1,330 Living donor kidney 197 241 302 341 372 379 450 All kidney only 1,623 1,550 1,661 1,649 1,636 1,716 1,780 Kidney-pancreas 25 21 25 41 41 48 45 Kidney-liver 18 5 8 9 5 13 10 Kidney/heart 3 3 1 1 3 1 1 Kidney-liver-pancreas — 1 — — — — — Total kidney 1,669 1,580 1,695 1,700 1,685 1,778 1,836 In the UK we have invested in a number of initiatives to boost organ donation. Between 1 April 2003 and 31 March 2004 there were 2,854 transplants—the highest number of organ transplants in seven years. The highest number of patients for fourteen years received a kidney-only transplant with living donation now representing one in four of all kidney-only transplants. We saw a 20 per cent. increase in non-heartbeating donation and more than 800,000 people added their names to the NHS organ donor register.