NHS transplant ‘revolution’ in major change to how surgeons remove organs

Surgical technique pioneered in Britain being rolled out across the NHS to increase number of usable organs which can be retrieved for lifesaving transplants

Hundreds more lifesaving transplants will be successful thanks to a ‘revolutionary’ technique being rolled out on the NHS .

Surgeons will pump organs such as the liver, kidney and pancreas with oxygenated blood before removing them after an NHS pilot showed it could boost the number of usable organs that are retrieved. The technique pioneered in Britain was shown to double the number of usable livers retrieved and increase the average transplanted abdominal organs from each donor from 2.6 to 3.3.

The rollout of the technique across the UK comes with the NHS transplant waiting list at a record high after a post-pandemic drop in do