article_snippet: But demand exceeds supply, and some patients have to wait up to three years for a suitable organ, with many dying on the waiting list.
article_snippet: Mr Messer added: ‘Currently patients can wait over three years for a heart transplant.
article_snippet: But less than half of the people on the waiting list will be transplanted.
article_snippet: ‘About 13 per cent die while less than half of the people on the waiting list are waiting, and around 30 per cent are removed from the waiting list, because less than half of the people on the waiting list become too unwell to have the operation.