Published Date:
15 January 2009
By Craig Woodhouse
ALMOST 800 organ and tissue transplants were performed on non-UK patients over the past ten years, figures showed last night.
A total of 795 such transplants were performed between April 1998 and March 2008, the health minister, Ann Keen, said.
They included 674 liver, 47 kidney and 57 cornea transplants.
In a written Commons answer to the shadow health minister, Stephen O'Brien, Ms Keen said that transplantation of donated organs into non-UK residents of the European Union was guided by European law, "which effectively regards such patients as having equal access to the NHS".
According to the NHS UK Transplant website, there are 7,911 British patients waiting for transplants.
The full article contains 119 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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Last Updated:
15 January 2009 12:16 AM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
