Organs: Donors
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many organ donations under deemed consent legislation have there been from deceased donors between 1st January (a) 2022, and (b) 2026.
Answered by Dr Zubir Ahmed
NHS Blood and Transplant is responsible for organ donation in the United Kingdom and manages the NHS Organ Donor Register (ODR).
Deemed consent donors are people who became deceased donors, donating one or more organs, where no decision to donate had been recorded on the NHS ODR, and consent was therefore deemed under the relevant deemed consent legislation, with organ donation proceeding only where the donor’s family were available for consultation. The following table shows the number of deemed consent donors and the number of organs donated by deemed consent donors, both United Kingdom wide, from 2022 to 2025:
Year | Number of deemed consent donors | Number of organs donated by deemed consent donors |
2022 | 439 | 1342 |
2023 | 455 | 1479 |
2024 | 381 | 1213 |
2025 | 404 | 1333 |
Source: NHS Blood and Transplant, using data from the UK Transplant Registry.
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