Organ Waiting List numbers June 2002

Patients Awaiting Transplant by State of Origin at January 2003.

Organ Donors in January 1 - December 31 2002

Patients Transplanted in Australia by Transplant State. January 1 - December 31 2002

Average Waiting Time for each Transplant in Australia at 31 December 2002

Average Waiting Time for each Organ by State at 31 December 2002

Deaths on Waiting List during 2002

Children/Young People less than 20 years old Waiting for a Transplant at 31 December 2002

Graft and Patient Survivals

Cost of Transplantation

SOURCE: Transplant data cross checked using figures provided by individual transplant units and the Australia and New Zealand Organ Donation Registry data. Includes organs received from New Zealand. Waiting List Data is provided by the national Organ Matching System.

Patients Awaiting Transplant by State of Origin at January 2003.

	QLD	NSW/ACT	VIC/TAS	SA/NT	WA	TOTAL
Kidney	106	796	383	93	112	1490
Liver	33	23	19	3		78
Heart	18	27	18	0	7	70
Lung	22	38	42	10		112
Pancreas	5	16	6	4	4	35
Pancreas Islets		3				3
Total	184	903	468	110	123	1788

NB: Data provided by the National Organ Matching Service (NOMS).

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Organ Donors in January 1 - December 31 2002

	QLD	NSW	ACT	VIC	TAS	SA	NT	WA	TOTAL
Organ Donors	44	55	6	47	6	31	2	15	206
*DPMP (predicted)**	12.1	8.4	19.1	9.7	12.8	20.7	10.2	7.9	10.6
Tissue Donors +	358	N/A	N/A	236	-	74	-	47	-

* DPMP - donors per million population.

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Patients Transplanted in Australia by Transplant State. January 1 - December 31 2002

	QLD	NSW	VIC	SA	WA	TOTAL
Kidney	111	173	202	77	49	612
- Cadaveric	77	121	92	56	28	374
- Live (%)**	34(31%)	52(30%)	110(55%)	21(27%)	21(43%)	238(39%)
Liver	38	61*	36	12	6	153
Heart	17	19	32*	-	6	74
Heart/Lung	3	2	4	-	-	9
Lung	15 12 double 3 single	31 28 double 3 single	45 25 double 20 single	-	-	91 65 double 26 single
Pancreas#	-	17	9	-	-	26
TOTAL	184	303	328	89	61	965

Includes transplants performed in Australia with organs received from New Zealand.

* includes one live donor for liver and domino heart

+ Tissue donors includes corneas, bone, heart valves (this figure does not include tissue donated from organ donors)

** represents percentage of live donor kidney transplants compared to total kidney transplants performed

^ includes 1 domino heart transplant

# All pancreas transplants with a kidney except for one pancreas only and one islets in NSW

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Average Waiting Time for each Transplant in Australia at 31 December 2002

Kidney	3.8 years
Heart	2.2 years
Liver	1.5 years
Lungs	1.2 years
Pancreas	1.7 years

Source: National Organ Matching System (NOMS)

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Average Waiting Time for each Organ by State at 31 December 2002

	NSW	QLD	SA	VIC	WA
Kidney	4.2	2.4	3.4	3.5	3.6
Liver	2.4	1.5	0.4	0.5	-
Heart	3.3	1.6	-	1.8	0.2
Lung	1.5	1.0	1.1	1.0	-
Pancreas	1.5	2.5	1.8	1.3	2.2

Source: National Organ Matching System (NOMS)

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Deaths on Waiting List during 2002

Includes only patients listed with the National Organ Matching System (NOMS) at the time of their death.

	NSW	QLD	SA	VIC	WA	TOTAL
Kidney	22	7	3	14	3	49
Heart	0	4	0	4	2	10
Liver	0	10	0	12	0	22
Pancreas	1	1	0	0	1	3
Lung	6	9	2	6	0	23
All Organs	29	31	5	36	6	107

Source: National Organ Matching System (NOMS)

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Children/Young People less than 20 years old Waiting for a Transplant at 31 December 2002

		Proportion of the overall waiting list
Kidneys	27	1%
Liver	10	13%
heart	3	4%
Lungs	9	8%
pancreas	1	3%
Total	50

Source: National Organ Matching System (NOMS)

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Graft Survival

Kidney	at 1 year	90%
	at 5 years	77%

Patient Survival

Heart	at 1 year	90%
	at 5 years	85%

Lung	at 1 year	89%
	at 5 years	75%

Liver	at 1 year	90%
	at 5 years	85%

Source: ANZDATA Registry Report, Australia and New Zealand Liver Transplant Registry Report, St Vincents / Alfred Transplant Units.

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Cost of Transplantation

This cost relates to the cost of the actual transplant (in patient stay). It does not include any cost of followup care

Kidney	$14,754
Liver	$47,030
Heart	$34,894
Lung	$96,067
Multiple Organs (eg kidney and pancreas)	$41,360

Source: Queensland health Hospital Bench Marking Model 2002-03
National Hospital cost data collection results

It is estimated that the ongoing cost for transplant patients is $15,000 - $20,000 per year.

Average cost of haemodialysis $50,000 per year.

Source: Australian Kidney Foundation.

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