{"id":58580,"date":"2026-08-13T10:17:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/leading-doctor-rebukes-nhs-chiefs-over-transplant-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:17:39","slug":"leading-doctor-rebukes-nhs-chiefs-over-transplant-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/leading-doctor-rebukes-nhs-chiefs-over-transplant-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading doctor rebukes NHS chiefs over transplant crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"


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While NHS Blood and Transplant manages organ donations and supports transplant centres, services are commissioned and paid for by NHS England.<\/p>\n

But in a letter to NHS England and a small group of patient advocates, Manas said the central body had created a “fragmented” system “with poor accountability”.<\/p>\n

There is a “mismatch”, he said, between each hospital’s waiting lists, organ availability, capacity to carry out surgeries and the availability of operating theatres.<\/p>\n

This is “leading to last-minute cancellations [and] unpredictable utilisation of donated organs,” he warned.<\/p>\n

The BBC reported in March<\/a> that the UK, once a world leader, had fallen behind major Western nations in heart and lung transplantation, though it fares better in other areas such as kidney transplantation.<\/p>\n

The NHS transplants one in 10 lungs and one in seven hearts that are donated – half the proportions seen in some other countries.<\/p>\n

It has not invested in modern technology at the same rate as other countries, and suffers from a lack of theatre space, intensive care beds and staff.<\/p>\n

Wales and Northern Ireland do not have a heart and lung transplant centre, so patients commonly travel to England for surgery. There is one heart transplant centre in Scotland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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While NHS Blood and Transplant manages organ donations and supports transplant centres, services are commissioned and paid for by NHS England. But in a letter to NHS England and a small group of patient advocates, Manas said the central body had created a “fragmented” system “with poor accountability”. There is a “mismatch”, he said, between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[4435,267,1303,1896,144,6043,8989],"class_list":["post-58580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-chiefs","tag-crisis","tag-doctor","tag-leading","tag-nhs","tag-rebukes","tag-transplant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58582,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58580\/revisions\/58582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}