NHS Blood & Transplant · production

Organ Offering Scheme Algorithms

"The organ allocation algorithms enable quick processing of data to ensure that every precious organ donated, has the best possible chance of being transplanted successfully by an effective, fair, and transparent means."

Publicly known

Owner: NHS Blood & Transplant
Vendor: For one of the organ allocation algorithms, the UK Living Kidney Sharing Scheme, the Dept. of Computer Science at Glasgow University

Undisclosed

Model architecture
Model performance benchmarks
Training data provenance

Who is actually being paid

For one of the organ allocation algorithms, the UK Living Kidney Sharing Scheme, the Dept. of Computer Science at Glasgow University

Role

The Department of Computer Science at Glasgow University in collaboration with the Statistics and Clinical Research team at NHSBT have developed the algorithm for the UK Living Kidney Sharing Scheme to match donor and recipient pairs for transplant.

Procurement procedure

Collaborative working relationship between NHS Blood and Transplant and Glasgow University

Data access terms

The developed algorithm is embedded within NHSBT IT systems and so no data access to the external supplier is granted.

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Source: ATRS record · last updated Thu Jun 26 2025