Transplants 'given to 800 non-UK patients'
ALMOST 800 organ and tissue transplants were performed on non-UK patients over the past ten years, figures showed last night.
A total of 795 such transplants were performed between April 1998 and March 2008, the health minister, Ann Keen, said.
They included 674 liver, 47 kidney and 57 cornea transplants.
In a written Commons answer to the shadow health minister, Stephen O'Brien, Ms Keen said that transplantation of donated organs into non-UK residents of the European Union was guided by European law, "which effectively regards such patients as having equal access to the NHS".
According to the NHS UK Transplant website, there are 7,911 British patients waiting for transplants.
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