Organ donation and transplantation data for Black, Asian, mixed race and minority ethnic (BAME) communities: report for 2020/2021 (1 April 2016 - 31 March 2021)

This report provides information related to organ donation and transplantation within the white and Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities in the UK. It finds the Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the numbers of living donor kidney transplants that could be performed. In 2020/21 there was a comparable drop in both white and non-white deceased donors, but a 61 per cent decrease in the number of BAME living donors, compared with a 58 per cent drop overall.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news