According to leading specialist in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s transplant programme, Dr Margaret O’Shea, the number of new patients requiring dialysis at the hospital is six per month.

She says the QEH is struggling to effectively treat the majority of patients, with each requiring three treatments per week but only receiving two.

Dr O’Shea says this is why legislative changes are needed to allow for an organ donor programme and the transplantation of donor kidneys.