How many people are awaiting an organ transplant and what the average waiting time is for each major organ.

The information requested on the numbers of people in Scotland waiting for an organ transplant is given in the following table.
Total Patients Waiting at 31 March 2012
Organ 1, 2

Kidney
482
Kidney/pancreas
16
Pancreas (+ islets)
6
Heart
14
Lung(s)
19
Heart/Lung
1
Liver
59
Other (multi-organ)
2

Total

597
Source: NHS Blood and Transplant
Notes:
1. Transplant waiting list based on Scottish postcode of residence
2. Excludes patients temporarily suspended from the transplant list.
As regards waiting times for transplantation of the major organs, the latest information provided by NHS Blood and Transplant indicates that the median wait, in terms of adult patients on the waiting list at a transplant centre in Scotland, is around 1,320 days for a kidney transplant, 302 days for a heart transplant and 90 days for a liver transplant. These figures exclude those who are placed on the “urgent” list for heart transplantation and the ‘super-urgent’ list for liver transplantation.