Organ transplant patients waiting up to two years for operations

ELEVEN people in North Lincolnshire are on the UK's waiting list for an organ transplant – and some have been waiting longer than two years.The statistics have been released by the NHS Blood and Transplant Service to coincide with a new campaign called The Wait to highlight the scale of the donor organ shortage.Since April 2011, a number of North Lincolnshire patients – believed to be less than five – have died because of the shortage of organs.However, nationally more than...