Transplants save lives
In the UK between 1 April 2007 and 31 March 2008:
- 3,235 organ transplants were carried out, thanks to the generosity of 1,665 donors.
- 911 lives were saved in the UK through a heart, lung, liver or combined heart/lungs, liver/kidney, liver/pancreas, heart/kidney or liver/kidney/pancreas transplant.
- A total of 2,324 patients received a kidney, pancreas or combined kidney/pancreas transplant.
- A further 2,489 people had their sight restored through a cornea transplant.
- A record number of donors were living donors, 851 people donated a kidney or a segment of their liver or lung, representing more than half of all donors.
- The highest number of non-heartbeating donor transplants took place- 429 transplants, a 36% increase on 2006-2007.
- Living donor kidney transplants are increasing - 589 in 2005-2006, 690 in 2006-2007 and 829 in 2007-2008 and now represent more than one in three of all kidney transplants.
- At the end of March 2008, 7,655 patients were listed as actively waiting for a transplant.
- Almost a million more people pledged to help others after their death by registering their wishes on the NHS Organ Donor Register, bringing the total at 31 March 2008 to 15,140,826.
Comprehensive data for the period 2006-2007 is available in the PDF report Transplant Activity 2006-2007.
The report for 2007-2008 will be posted here in due course.
All statistics produced and published by UK Transplant undergo a vigorous validation process to ensure, as far as possible, that information is factually accurate.
This page was last updated on 27 June 2008