Kidneys: Transplant Surgery
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the number of people currently on a waiting list for a kidney transplant.
Answered by Dr Zubir Ahmed
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is responsible for organ donation in the United Kingdom. It also manages the NHS Organ Donor Register and national transplant waiting list.
As of 17 December 2025, there were 7,119 patients registered as active on the kidney transplant list. Of the 7,119 registered patients, 6,734 were registered as requiring kidney only, as the other 385 patients were registered as requiring kidney and another organ.
NHSBT publishes weekly updates on the transplant waiting list at the following link:
https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/about-organ-donation/statistics-about-organ-donation/
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