
Looking just at minima for bed and staff and looking just certified kidney and liver transplant hospitals, we get to between 53,000 and 60,000 transplants a year. If we add to that the heart and lung transplant centres, the fact that many certified hospitals are operating far beyond minimum levels and that some hospitals not certified still continue to do transplants, we get a much larger figure. We would say that the transplant volume range is between 60,000 to 100,000 a year. We would place an emphasis on the higher numbers.