Let Scottish Fontan Patients Stay Home for Life-Saving Heart Transplants

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

I was born with Tricuspid atresia unventriculated heart disease. I survived because of the Fontan heart bypass and Extra Cardiac Fontan heart surgery. Fontan circulation is not a cure it fails. When it does a heart, lungs and/or liver transplant is the only way to live.

Scottish Fontan patients are forced to leave Scotland for life saving transplants separating us from family and support at the most terrifying time of our lives. This is not choice it is a failure of the system. NHS Scotland must allow Fontan patients to be assessed and transplanted in Scotland.
Let us fight for our lives at home.
We are not numbers or referrals. We are people terrified of dying far from home, asking for the chance to live — with dignity, love and support — in Scotland at Home.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Your petition is about something that the Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament is responsible for. That means that the UK Government and Parliament can't look into it.

The Scottish Parliament has its own Public Petitions Committee. If you'd like to send your petition to the Scottish Parliament, you can find out more here: https://petitions.parliament.scot/

You may also wish to contact your local council and MSP who represent you about this issue.

You can find the name of your local council and how to contact them here: https://www.mygov.scot/find-your-local-council

You can find the name of your local MSP and how to contact them here: https://www.parliament.scot/msps

Timeline

9 Jan 2026	Petition opened for signatures
4 Feb 2026	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10

Status Rejected

Rejected 4 Feb 2026

Follow this petition