Organs: Donors
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, approximately how many non - direct altruistic organ donations have there been in each of the last ten years.
Answered by Dr Zubir Ahmed
Non‑direct altruistic organ donation is managed by NHS Blood and Transplant, which is responsible for organ donation services. Non‑direct altruistic donation involves people donating an organ, such as a kidney or a lobe of liver, as a living donor without knowing the recipient or expecting anything in return. The following table shows the number of non-direct altruistic donations across the United Kingdom, split by organ, namely kidney or liver:
Financial year | Non-direct altruistic kidney donations |
2016/17 | 86 |
2017/18 | 89 |
2018/19 | 64 |
2019/20 | 96 |
2020/21 | 34 |
2021/22 | 72 |
2022/23 | 83 |
2023/24 | 48 |
2024/25 | 62 |
2025/26 | 58 |
Source: NHS Blood and Transplant, using data from the UK Transplant Registry.
For every financial year since 2016/17, there has been five or less non-direct altruistic liver lobe donations. There has been a total of 14 non-direct altruistic liver lobe donations in the past ten years.
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