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Proceeding contribution from Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 20 November 2008. It occurred during Adjournment debate on Organ Donation.


Organ Donation

I certainly support what the Minister is saying and what the Government are doing on the matter, but there is one thing that I find curious, and I would be grateful for her reflections. Although more and more people have signed up to the organ donor register—not as many as we would like, but many more—and that graph is going upwards, the number of cadaveric transplants, which is the desired end result, has gone flat. That suggests, curiously, that there is no link between the number of people signing the register and the number of transplants. We need people to sign to prevent the number from falling, but it does not appear to be the solution, for some reason, to the lack of a rise in the number of transplants.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
483 c136WH 
Session
2007-08
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Subjects
Consent to medical treatment Donors NHS Patients Organs Waiting lists Transplant surgery
Link
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