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• The first successful kidney transplant was in 1954. The first heart transplant took place in 1967. 
• The generosity of donors and their families enables over 3,000 people in the UK every year to take on a new lease of life.
• You are more likely to need a transplant than become a donor.
• 30% of people on the NHS Organ Donor Register are aged between 16 and 25 when they join. A further 24% are aged between 26 and 35. 9% are 65 or over when they join.
• More women (54%) than men (46%) have signed up on the NHS Organ Donor Register.
• Repeated surveys show that the majority of the public support organ donation. The last survey conducted in 2003 for UK Transplant showed that 90% of people support organ donation.
• All the major religions support organ donation and many actively promote it.
• The oldest solid organ donor ever recorded in the UK was 84.
• The oldest recorded recipient of an organ in the UK was an 85-year-old kidney patient.
• The cost benefit of kidney transplantation compared to dialysis over a period of ten years (the median graft survival time) is £241,000 or £24,100 per year for each year that the patient has a functioning transplanted kidney.
• Black people are three times as likely as the general population to develop kidney failure.
• The need for organs in the Asian community is three to four times higher than that of the white community. This is because conditions such as diabetes and heart disease - that can result in organ failure - occur more often in the Asian population.
• The number of living donor kidney transplants has more than quadrupled in the last 10 years and now account for one in nearly three of all kidney transplants.
• A donor can donate a heart, lungs, two kidneys, pancreas, liver and small bowel and can restore the sight of two people by donating their corneas.
• Donors can also give bone and tissue such as skin, heart valves and tendons. Skin grafts have helped people with severe burns and bone is used in orthopaedic surgery.
• Most organ donations come from people who have died while on a ventilator in a hospital intensive care unit. Organs, particularly hearts and lungs, deteriorate very quickly without an oxygen supply and the ventilator is able to keep blood and oxygen circulating after death.
• Traditionally organ donors have come from two groups: road accident and brain haemorrhage patients. Improved road safety and medical intervention mean that fewer in both groups are dying.
• The age of people who have donated organs after their death has changed in the past decade with more aged over 50 and fewer younger donors. Older donors are less likely to be able to donate as many of their organs as younger people as some organs may become less suitable for transplantation as people age. But organs from people in their 70s and 80s are transplanted successfully.
• The number of people needing a transplant is expected to rise steeply over the next decade due to an ageing population, an increase in kidney failure and scientific advances resulting in more people being suitable for a transplant.
• Age is no barrier to being a donor. The oldest donor was 104 and donated a cornea.
• More than 10,000 people in the UK need an organ transplant. 96% would accept an organ if needed, yet only 27% have joined the NHS Organ Donor Register.
• UK has one of the lowest rates of organ donation in Western Europe at 13 donors per million of population - Spain has 35 donors per million.
• On average three people die every day because there aren't enough donor organs.
• You can find out more about organ donation and join the NHS Organ Donor Register by calling 0300 123 23 23 or visiting the NHSBT website www.organdonation.nhs.uk

• In the UK between 1 April 2008 and 31 March 2009:

  - 3,513 organ transplants were carried out, thanks to the generosity of 1,853 donors.
  - 977 lives were saved in the UK through a heart, lung, liver or combined heart/lungs, liver/kidney, liver/pancreas, heart/kidney or liver/kidney/pancreas transplant.
  - A total of 2,536 patients received a kidney, pancreas or combined kidney/pancreas transplant.
  - A further 2,711 people had their sight restored through a cornea transplant.
  - A record number of donors were living donors, 954 people donated a kidney or a segment of their liver or lung, representing more than half of all donors.
  - The highest number of non-heartbeating donor transplants took place - 579 transplants, a 35% increase on 2007-2008.
  - Living donor kidney transplants are increasing - 589 in 2005-2006, 690 in 2006-2007, 831 in 2007-2008 and 927 in 2008-2009 and now represent more than one in three of all kidney transplants.
  - At the end of March 2009, 7,877 patients were listed as actively waiting for a transplant.
  - Almost a million more people pledged to help others after their death by registering their wishes on the NHS Organ Donor Register, bringing the total at 31 March 2009 to 16,124,871.