Organ transplants: Black people wait up to six months longer

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Black patients wait six months longer on average for organ transplants than the general population, NHS data shows.

The best match comes from someone of the same ethnicity - but only 2% of donors in 2021/22 were black, while black people are 4% of the population.

Black families are also less likely to agree to organ donation than white families, the figures show.