About the Glasgow Transplant Unit

The Glasgow Transplant Unit is based at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and provides adult kidney transplant services to the West of Scotland and children's kidney transplant services to all of Scotland, as well as dialysis access surgery for the NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, NHS Forth Valley and NHS Dumfries & Galloway Health Board areas.

The transplant unit has been doing increasing numbers of transplants in recent years, and offers living donor, deceased donor and ABO incompatible living donor transplants. Since the year 2000, the Glasgow Transplant Unit has performed 3254 kidney transplants, although the unit has been open for much longer and there are some patients transplanted in Glasgow in the 1970s whose transplants are still working. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, we were able to perform 142 transplants in 2020.

The transplant unit includes a number of different specialists, including transplant surgeons, nephrologists, transplant coordinators, nurses, pharmacists, clinical psychologists and dietitians as well as clinical scientists in histocompatibility & immunogenetics. Additionally there is support available from a variety of other specialists including radiologists, pathologists, microbiologists, cardiologists, diabetes physicians, respiratory physicians, infectious diseases physicians and psychiatrists.