Mick Wallace
Ceist:215. Deputy Mick Wallace asked the Minister for Health the specific factors involved in determining priority for patient waiting lists for organ transplants. [6242/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraDáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 8 February 2017
215. Deputy Mick Wallace asked the Minister for Health the specific factors involved in determining priority for patient waiting lists for organ transplants. [6242/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraI am advised by the Health Service Executive that the specific factors involved in determining priority for patients on an organ transplant waiting list is a clinical decision made by the transplant clinicians in each of the national transplant centres.
Allocation policies for kidney, heart, lung and liver are available on the website of HSE's Organ Donation and Transplant Ireland, www.odti.ie. When an organ becomes available for transplant the decision on allocation is made by the relevant national transplant centre in accordance with these policies.