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Transplant Surgery: Overseas Visitors

Volume 494: debated on Tuesday 16 June 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 31 March 2009, Official Report, column 1110W, on surgery: overseas residence, how many people recorded as resident outside the UK, excluding the Republic of Ireland, and categorised in Group 2 received organs between April 1998 and March 2008. (279540)

The following table shows organ transplants from deceased donors into patients recorded as resident outside the United Kingdom excluding Republic of Ireland and categorised as Group 2; April 1998 to March 2008. All transplants listed took place in national health service hospitals.

Number

1998-99

22

1999-2000

38

2000-01

59

2001-02

46

2002-03

53

2003-04

52

2004-05

27

2005-06

21

2006-07

7

2007-08

5

Total

330