Access to kidney transplants 'varies widely across UK'

"I am romantic about the NHS; I love it. All I need to do to rediscover the romance is to look at health care in my own country." Donald Berwick, MD, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

An organ donation manager has welcomed a study that reveals wide differences in kidney patients’ access to life-saving organs.

James Neuberger, associate medical director of organ donation and transplantation at NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), said renal centres should “take note” of the study, which found large variations across the UK that could not be explained by health reasons.

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