Scottish Donation and Transplant Group written update: March 2023

Written updates from the meeting of the group held on 16 March 2023.


Living donation update

Update given by:

  • Jen Lumsdaine, Living Donor Co-ordinator, NHS Lothian

Education and publicity

Bauer radio platform featured living kidney donation in January, on radio stations across Scotland. This, along with the campaign in December 2022 has resulted in wide multi-media coverage of selected living donation stories – including twenty-nine print and online stories in national and local newspapers; Twitter (24 posts) and Facebook 10 posts with a combined following of 312,000.

The Renal Education and Choices at Home (REACH) Transplant initiative was presented at The British Transplantation Society meeting in Edinburgh early March, with a poster presentation of the health-check questionnaire return data.

The information booklet for REACH Transplant produced locally during the pilot is currently being updated

REACH Transplant

All REACH Transplant nurses have been appointed in all NHS Boards with nine out of ten in post. The remaining nurse will be in post by end of March 2023. The induction programme is underway and evaluation tools developed.

Workforce planning

The consultant nephrology input is complete, and the transplant co-ordinator/specialist nurse information complete by the end of March 23.

Number of health-check questionnaire returns

Data collection for health-check questionnaire returns including all units (altruistic and direct) by month.

Date

Altruistic donors

Direct donors

Direct recipients

April 2021

3

51

34

May 2021

0

42

30

June 2021

0

39

31

July 2021

2

58

44

August 2021

1

31

23

September 2021

4

47

32

October 2021

5

40

31

November 2021

5

53

42

December 2021

2

66

39

January 2022

5

94

64

February 2022

8

66

38

March 2022

4

57

39

April 2022

7

49

35

May 2022

1

43

32

June 2022

2

35

33

July 2022

2

36

26

August 2022

2

47

37

September 2022

0

60

43

October 2022

2

46

32

November 2022

2

66

43

December 2022

3

47

35

January 2023

3

43

37

February 2023

4

45

37

Kidney transplants Scotland 2016-2023

 

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

2020/21

2021/22

2022/23

To February 2023

Deceased donor transplants

164

208

171

182

158

136

133

Living donor transplants

83

92

106

101

52

80

82

 

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Scottish Donation and Transplant Group meeting: March 2023

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