Organs: North West

(asked on 9th June 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of people in (a) Pendle constituency, (b) East Lancashire and (c) the North West are registered organ donors.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 16th June 2014

The information requested is in the following table:

Proportion of people in Pendle constituency, East Lancashire and the North West who are registered organ donors as at 10 June 2014

Area

Number on the Organ Donor Register

Population estimate1

% on the Organ Donor Register

Pendle Constituency

22,071

89,613

24.6%

East Lancashire2

137,865

530,605

26.0%

North West 3

2,083,446

7,084,337

29.4%

1 Source: Office for National Statistics mid-2012 population estimates

2 East Lancashire comprising the districts of Blackburn with Darwen, Hyndburn, Ribble Valley, Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale

3 This comprises:

Ashton, Leigh and Wigan, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Bolton, Bury, Central and Eastern Cheshi, Cumbria, East Lancashire, Halton and St Helens, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, Knowsley, Liverpool, Manchester, North Lancashire, Oldham, Salford, Sefton, Stockport, Tameside and Glossop, Trafford, Warrington, Western Cheshire, Wirral

Source: NHS Blood and Transplant

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