UK Transplant no longer produces a separate business plan but its work plan now forms part of the overall NHSBT business plan. The sections specific to UKT can be read below. Download the full NHSBT business plan for 2007-2008.
UK Transplant Work-Plan and Operating Costs
UKT is one of a number of NHS organisations involved in the commissioning and provision of UK transplant services. During 2007/08, UKT will build on the considerable progress achieved over the last 5 years, and look to further improve services to transplant patients and organ donors.
Strategic Objective 8: Organ Transplants
UKT will lead the UK's organ donation and transplantation service, seeking to identify and refer increasing numbers of potential donors and to increase the number of actual donors.
UKT will achieve this through the progression of activity in three key work-streams.
Increasing the relatives' consent rate
Through planned investment in a further 10 in-house co-ordinator schemes (£0.5m)
UKT will increase the relatives' consent rate from 59% to 61%, realising an additional
25 donors, leading to 80 additional organ transplants.
Extending programmes to support non-heart-beating and living donation
UKT will maintain the current investment in existing non-heart-beating schemes,
developing proposals to expand into all neurological ICUs and other general ICUs.
UKT will also extend the investment in liver donor schemes adding a further 5
schemes (£0.2m) that will realise an additional 20 donors, leading to 20 additional
organ transplants.
Increasing the number of people on the Organ Donor register (ODR)
Through investment of £1.0m above baseline budgets in additional marketing
campaigns, UKT will increase the numbers on the Organ Donor Register to 14.7m by
March 2008.
Strategic Objective 9: Corneal Transplants
UKT will achieve this through its continued investment in eye retrieval schemes. Funding of £0.7m will be invested in 2007/08 to fund eye banks for the cost of donor referrals carried out by NBS Tissue Services. UKT will also conduct a formal review of all (8) funded eye retrieval centres and, thereafter, continue to performance manage each centre against an annual target of 450 corneas after three years of operation.
UKT Operating Costs
UKT will deliver a cost reduction programme of £0.4m in 2007/08 and its capital
charges will reduce by £0.1m. These savings will be re-invested to cover the cost of
inflation and other cost pressures. Overall, this leads to a slight reduction (£0.1m) in
the baseline DH grant in aid funding position.
The UKT work plan identifies a total investment programme of £2.4m above baseline funding with the overall net impact for UKT being an increased cost base of £2.3m in 2007/08. This investment will deliver an increase in the number of organ and corneal transplants during 2007/08 and lay the platform for future increases.