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Motion · S6M-09656 · 22 Jun 2023

NHS Golden Jubilee in Clydebank Wins National Award for Excellence in Donor Heart Retrieval

Lodged by Marie McNair (Scottish National Party) Standard Motion 22 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament congratulates the NHS Golden Jubilee’s Transplant Retrieval Team in Clydebank on receiving the award for Excellence in Organ and Tissue Donation by NHS Blood and Transplant and the British Transplantation Society at their annual UK awards ceremony; understands that, based in Scotland’s only Heart Transplant Unit at the Golden Jubilee University National Hospital, the team has been specifically commended for its work in Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) and its impact on the heart transplantation programme; further understands that, traditionally, donor hearts are still beating and are only removed from individuals who are certified as brain dead but, thanks to advances in technology and the pioneering Organ Care System (OCS) or “Heart in a Box” system, it is now possible to retrieve a heart after circulatory death; considers that DCD heart donation has been the biggest game changer in heart transplantation in the last 35 years; understands that a record number of 40 procedures have been performed by the NHS Golden Jubilee in 2022-23, which is the largest number of heart transplants in any one year performed in Scotland since the service started back in 1992; thanks the staff in the NHS Golden Jubilee’s Transplant Retrieval Team for their continuous hard work, and commends them for this outstanding achievement.

Supporters (22)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.