The amount of people in a function for a lung transplant has prolonged earlier up by method of capacity of 46% over the earlier five years, according to official figures.
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) said the concern of matching lungs of the genuine measurement and a rising amount of getting older donors are you may really factors.
It called on people to talk about organ donation, merely on account of the truth lung transplants are the purely want for those on the list.
The accepted in a function list for organs has come down over the similar period.
There at this time are 354 people in a function for a new lung in the UK, unlike 242 in 2012-13 - Laura Beattie from Greater Manchester is one in every one of them.
'I get breathless even getting dressed'
Laura, 29, from Stretford, has cystic fibrosis and was additional to the transplant in a function list merely over a month ago.
Her lung function has declined over the last couple of years, and is now at spherical 24%.
"I've known for more than 20 years that I would want a transplant at a few level but I was still terrified to be informed I was going on the list because it made it real," said Laura.
"But I recognize it's the genuine thing to do. I get breathless even turning over in bed or getting dressed."
Laura now uses oxygen every one day and in addition a wheelchair whereas she goes out for more than merely a number of hours.
She also requires non-invasive ventilation overnight.
Despite this, she has co-founded a form commerce alongside together with her sister.
She said: "I may be in a function a quickly time or a prolonged time, I do now no longer know. I merely try to get on with my life.
"I really want more people help and really trust donation merely on account of the truth a transplant is my purely danger now and donation can preserve so many lives."
Delicate organs
Lungs and hearts are both gentle organs, which makes successful donation and transplantation more problematic, rather whereas donors are generally aged over 50 and are more perhaps to have newest effectively being problems.
The in a function list for hearts is the purely organ-specific in a function list that has also risen.
In contrast, there are lately 6,013 people on the accepted in a function list for an organ - a 17% decline over the similar period, from 7,335.
NHSBT said the causes of the rise in the lung transplant in a function list had been being investigated and an greater amount of referrals for a transplant was a power factor.
But family refusal remained the greatest barrier to all varieties of organ donation and transplantation, it said.
'Opportunities are lost'
John Forsythe, associate medical director for organ donation and transplantation at NHSBT, said 65 people died on the lung transplant in a function list last year.
"Many of those lives may had been kept or remodeled had more families said sure to donation," he said.
"Sadly, many donation opportunities are lost every one 12 months merely on account of the truth families do now no longer recognize if their preferred one had to be a donor or not. We urgently need people to tell their families they want to donate."
A new opt-out machine for organ donation is planned in England by method of capacity of 2020, the function adults will seemingly be presumed to be organ donors till they incredibly report their solution to now no longer be.
A similar machine is in place in Wales. Scotland plans to introduce an opt-out system, and Northern Ireland has also expressed an interest.