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1695821

	registered interest
	date	13/03/2024
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Kidneys: Transplant Surgery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help reduce waiting times for children in need of kidney transplants.
	tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
	tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
	uin	18354
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/03/2024 answer text <p>We are working with NHS Blood and Transplant to help reduce waiting times for children in need of kidney transplants. This includes implementing initiatives to improve the use of living donor kidney transplantation in paediatric centres, engaging with transplant centres to review patients who are too unwell to receive a transplant, and reducing long waiters, which are patients who wait more than 104 days for a transplant.</p><p>Nation-wide campaigns have been developed to increase paediatric registrations on the organ donor register, for example Ralph’s campaign, and the school’s education programme has been refreshed for younger children. A paediatric perfusion programme is also being developed to increase the use of kidneys from donors after circulatory death for paediatric patients.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 27/03/2024 14:24:32 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

1468561

	registered interest
	date	08/06/2022
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Kidneys: Transplant Surgery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of access for kidney transplant patients to (a) Evusheld and (b) other drugs that help increase resistance to covid-19.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Walton
	tabling member printed	Dan Carden
	uin	14599
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2022 answer text <p>Kidney transplant patients are eligible for community-based treatments via COVID Medicines Deliveries Units, which includes antiviral and neutralising monoclonal antibody treatments.</p><p>While Evusheld had been granted conditional marketing approval by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on 17 March 2022, it highlighted uncertainty on the appropriate dose needed for protection against the Omicron variant. The UK Health Security Agency is undertaking further testing which will inform any decisions on next steps, including procurement.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 14/06/2022 16:14:44 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup previous answer version 5996 answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
	tabling member	4651 label Biography information for Dan Carden

1259407

	registered interest
	date	08/12/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Kidneys: Transplant Surgery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what contingency plans his Department has put in place to ensure the uninterrupted supply from the EU of (a) fluids for peritoneal dialysis and (b) other critical specialist medications needed to maintain life and wellbeing for kidney transplant patients after 1 January 2021.
	tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
	tabling member printed	Layla Moran
	uin	126969
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/01/2021 answer text <p>The Government’s priority is to ensure that patients continue to have access to the medicines they need, including fluids for peritoneal dialysis and other medicines critical to kidney transplant patients. The Department continues to work closely with the pharmaceutical industry, the devolved administrations, the National Health Service and others in the supply chain to deliver the shared goal of continuity of safe patient care by mitigating any potential disruption to the supply of medicines into the United Kingdom at the end of the transition period.</p><p>As set out in a letter the Department sent to the pharmaceutical industry on 17 November 2020, the Department is implementing a multi-layered approach, that involves asking suppliers of medicines and medical products to the UK from or via the European Union to get themselves ‘trader ready’, reroute their supply chains away from any potential disruption and stockpile to a target level of six weeks on UK soil where this is possible. The letter is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/letter-to-medicines-and-medical-products-suppliers-17-november-2020" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/letter-to-medicines-and-medical-products-suppliers-17-november-2020</a></p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 27/01/2021 15:20:48 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 69144 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1230394

	registered interest
	date	01/09/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Kidneys: Transplant Surgery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people awaiting a kidney transplant who were not offered an operation because of (a) capacity and (b) safety concerns due to the covid-19 outbreak in each of the last six months.
	tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
	tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
	uin	83816
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2021 answer text <p>During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of kidney transplant centres closed, although four centres remained open throughout. Due to the different practices established across the United Kingdom and across organ groups with regards to waiting list management, it is not possible to give an accurate number for the number of patients who were suspended or did not receive an offer for a transplant.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 26/01/2021 13:14:59 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately previous answer version 45023 answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1191145

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Kidneys: Transplant Surgery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the kidney transplant waiting list.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	41146
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2020 answer text <p>While waiting lists continue to be monitored, an assessment on the effect on the kidney transplant waiting list cannot be made until transplant units reopen. Factors will include patients wishing to be relisted at this time; patients who have experienced acute kidney injury from COVID-19 and may become dialysis-dependent; and patients who have been unable to attend an assessment clinic at this time due to the risk to their health.</p><p>NHS England, NHS Improvement and NHS Blood and Transplant have been working closely together to ensure that organ donation and transplant activity could safely continue during the COVID-19 pandemic for very urgent life-saving transplants. Deceased organ donors are being referred and a few kidney transplants are taking place most days. A joint decision by NHS England and NHS Improvement and NHS Blood and Transplant was taken to cancel the living donor matching runs following an assessment of risk. Patients waiting for a kidney transplant are able to receive dialysis as a short-term alternative treatment.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 41147 question first answered 15/05/2020 10:48:31 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1191146

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Kidneys: Transplant Surgery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the availability of kidney transplants from (a) living and (b) deceased donors.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	41147
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2020 answer text <p>While waiting lists continue to be monitored, an assessment on the effect on the kidney transplant waiting list cannot be made until transplant units reopen. Factors will include patients wishing to be relisted at this time; patients who have experienced acute kidney injury from COVID-19 and may become dialysis-dependent; and patients who have been unable to attend an assessment clinic at this time due to the risk to their health.</p><p>NHS England, NHS Improvement and NHS Blood and Transplant have been working closely together to ensure that organ donation and transplant activity could safely continue during the COVID-19 pandemic for very urgent life-saving transplants. Deceased organ donors are being referred and a few kidney transplants are taking place most days. A joint decision by NHS England and NHS Improvement and NHS Blood and Transplant was taken to cancel the living donor matching runs following an assessment of risk. Patients waiting for a kidney transplant are able to receive dialysis as a short-term alternative treatment.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 41146 question first answered 15/05/2020 10:48:31 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1191147

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Kidneys: Transplant Surgery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the financial effect of the reduction of kidney transplants and associated increase in dialysis treatment as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	41148
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2020 answer text <p>NHS England, NHS Improvement and NHS Blood and Transplant have been working closely together to ensure that organ donation and transplant activity could safely continue during the COVID-19 pandemic for very urgent life-saving transplants. A few kidney transplants are taking place on most days. Patients waiting for a kidney transplant are able to receive dialysis as a short-term alternative treatment.</p><p>At this time, no financial assessment has been made of the impact of the changes to transplant and dialysis numbers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 11/05/2020 10:43:11 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

1191148

	registered interest
	date	28/04/2020
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Kidneys: Transplant Surgery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of kidney patients not receiving a transplant due to the covid-19 outbreak on (a) one year and (b) five year survival rates.
	tabling member constituency	Nottingham North
	tabling member printed	Alex Norris
	uin	41149
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2020 answer text <p>No assessment has yet been made. However, NHS Blood and Transplant is actively collecting data on the impact of COVID-19 for those patients on a waiting list for a kidney transplant, or for those who had received a transplant, and who had then contracted COVID-19. Similarly, the Renal Registry has been keeping the relevant data for dialysis patients. Early data show that both dialysis patients and those who are immunosuppressed for a kidney transplant are more vulnerable to the COVID-19.</p><p>NHS England, NHS Improvement and NHS Blood and Transplant do routinely monitor, and report on, the outcome data for all organ recipients and patients on the waiting list including one and five-year survival rates.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 11/05/2020 11:00:33 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
	tabling member	4641 label Biography information for Alex Norris

931927

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Kidneys: Transplant Surgery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential savings accrued to the public purse of reducing the number of people on dialysis by providing kidney transplants to those patients at the soonest available opportunity.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
	tabling member printed	Eleanor Smith
	uin	158314
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not assessed the cost effectiveness of increasing the number of donations from black, Asian and minority ethnic people of blood, stem cells and organs.</p><p> </p><p>Information on the potential savings of reducing the number of people on dialysis is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>An impact assessment prepared to support the consultation on proposed changes to consent for organ and tissue donation, which ran between December 2017 and March 2018, includes cost and benefit analysis information in respect of all organs, including kidney transplants. The impact assessment was limited to the cost/benefit analysis of changes to consent arrangements in England, and is available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/666518/Organ_Donation_Opt-Out_Consultation_Impact_Assessment.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/666518/Organ_Donation_Opt-Out_Consultation_Impact_Assessment.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 158312 question first answered 06/07/2018 12:42:01 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4609 label Biography information for Eleanor Smith

931016

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Kidneys: Transplant Surgery
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average cost to the NHS is of providing a kidney transplant.
	tabling member constituency	Wolverhampton South West
	tabling member printed	Eleanor Smith
	uin	157232
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2018 answer text <p>NHS Improvement publishes reference cost data relating to kidney transplants, which can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/reference-costs/" target="_blank">https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/reference-costs/</a></p><p> </p><p>Reference costs are the average unit cost to the National Health Service of providing defined services to NHS patients in England in a given financial year. The information relating to kidney transplants is collected in two ways, the actual transplant episodes and the preparatory and follow-up screening and examinations in the case of live donor transplants. Reference costs for 2016-17 are given in the following tables.</p><p> </p><p>Reference costs for kidney transplant episodes 2016-17</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HRG<sup>1</sup> Description</p></td><td><p>Activity</p></td><td><p>Unit Cost</p></td><td><p>Total Cost</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kidney Transplant, 19 years and over, from Cadaver Non-Heart-Beating Donor</p></td><td><p>645</p></td><td><p>£12,167</p></td><td><p>£7,847,829</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kidney Transplant, 18 years and under, from Cadaver Non-Heart-Beating Donor</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p>£5,780</p></td><td><p>£63,576</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kidney Transplant, 19 years and over, from Cadaver Heart-Beating Donor</p></td><td><p>1,171</p></td><td><p>£12,888</p></td><td><p>£15,092,002</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kidney Transplant, 18 years and under, from Cadaver Heart-Beating Donor</p></td><td><p>40</p></td><td><p>£15,157</p></td><td><p>£606,268</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kidney Transplant, 19 years and over, from Live Donor</p></td><td><p>708</p></td><td><p>£13,854</p></td><td><p>£9,808,873</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kidney Transplant, 18 years and under, from Live Donor</p></td><td><p>60</p></td><td><p>£15,149</p></td><td><p>£908,964</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>2,635</p></td><td><p>£13,028</p></td><td><p>£34,327,513</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Improvement</p><p><br>Notes:</p><ol><li>Reference costs for acute care are collected by healthcare resource group (HRG).</li></ol><p> </p><p>Reference cost data for pre and post-transplant episodes for activities associated with kidney transplants 2016-17</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="3"><p>Total</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>HRG<sup>1</sup> Description</p></td><td><p>Activity</p></td><td><p>Unit Cost</p></td><td><p>Total Cost</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Live Kidney Donor Screening</p></td><td><p>1,083</p></td><td><p>£215</p></td><td><p>£232,565</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kidney Pre-Transplantation Workup of Live Donor</p></td><td><p>2,422</p></td><td><p>£270</p></td><td><p>£654,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kidney Pre-Transplantation Workup of Recipient, 19 years and over</p></td><td><p>9,150</p></td><td><p>£271</p></td><td><p>£2,483,885</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kidney Pre-Transplantation Workup of Recipient, 18 years and under</p></td><td><p>27</p></td><td><p>£991</p></td><td><p>£26,750</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Examination for Post-Transplantation of Kidney of Recipient, 19 years and over</p></td><td><p>75,261</p></td><td><p>£239</p></td><td><p>£18,010,518</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Examination for Post-Transplantation of Kidney of Recipient, 18 years and under</p></td><td><p>396</p></td><td><p>£250</p></td><td><p>£99,024</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Examination for Post-Transplantation of Kidney of Live Donor</p></td><td><p>2,809</p></td><td><p>£173</p></td><td><p>£487,293</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>91,148</p></td><td><p>£241</p></td><td><p>£21,994,236</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Source: NHS Improvement</p><p><br>Notes:</p><ol><li>Reference costs for acute care are collected by HRG.</li></ol><p> </p><p>There are additional costs associated with a kidney transplant for immunosuppressant therapy, at an average cost of £6,000 per patient per year, and ongoing outpatient follow up but this information will depend on the individual patient and is not collected centrally.</p><p> </p><p>Information on hospital bed days used by patients waiting for organ or stem cell transplants is not centrally collected.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price grouped question UIN 157233 question first answered 03/07/2018 13:37:13 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
	tabling member	4609 label Biography information for Eleanor Smith