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Transplant Surgery: Kidneys

Volume 471: debated on Monday 4 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time is for liver transplant operations in (a) Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust and (b) London NHS trusts. (167292)

The average waiting time for a liver transplant is shown in the following table:

Primary care trust

Number in analysis

Median waiting time (days)

Barking and Dagenham; Havering; Redbridge

68

49.5

All in London strategic health authority

998

57.5

Note:

These figures are based on actual liver only transplants, multi-organ transplants e.g. liver/kidney, are not included. They are all first graft, elective transplants, super-urgent cases are not included.