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Transplant Surgery: Kidneys

Volume 471: debated on Thursday 31 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time is for kidney transplant operations in (a) Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust and (b) London NHS trusts. (167287)

The average waiting time for a kidney transplant in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge primary care trusts (PCTs) is shown in the following table:

Area

Number in analysis

Median waiting time (days)

Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge PCTs

202

340

London Strategic Health Authority (SHA)

3,593

242

Note:

These figures are based on actual kidney transplants. They are all first graft, elective transplants.