A new edition of Newsletter Transplant has just been published, presenting data on donation and transplantation activities worldwide in 2023.

This report is produced annually thanks to the invaluable support of the Spanish Organización Nacional de Trasplantes (ONT), which co-ordinates the collection, compilation and analysis of international data annually through a vast network of health authorities and officially designated individuals involved in donation and transplantation activities. Newsletter Transplant is prepared under the aegis of the European Committee on Organ Transplantation (CD-P-TO) of the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & Healthcare (EDQM)/Council of Europe. It is part of the CD-P-TO’s efforts to benchmark donation and transplantation programmes, which will contribute to increasing organ availability and improving the effectiveness of transplantation systems, and thus to improving access to good quality healthcare.

This year’s report covers a record 89 countries. Organ transplantation activities increased globally by 9% in 2023, an increase driven by an expansion of both deceased and living organ donation over 2022. Donation after the circulatory determination of death gained an extraordinary importance in the past year, since one out of four deceased donors in the world had been declared dead by circulatory criteria.

Read more in the press release “Newsletter Transplant 2024 – Organ donation increases globally”.