Organs: North West

(asked on 1st September 2014) - View Source
Questioner
Andrew Gwynne Portrait
Andrew Gwynne
(Labour - Denton and Reddish)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of people in (a) Denton and Reddish constituency, (b) Tameside local authority, (c) Stockport local authority and (d) the North West are registered organ donors.

Answered by
Portrait
Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 8th September 2014

The information requested is shown in the following table:

Number and proportion of people on the NHS Organ Donor Register (ODR) as at 2 September 2014

Number of People on the
ODR

Percentage of
population* on the ODR

Denton and Reddish Constituency

26,487

30.8%

Tameside Local Authority

65,156

29.6%

Stockport Local Authority

98,839

34.8%

North West Region

2,106,664

29.8%

Note: *based on Office for National Statistics 2012 population estimates

Source: NHS Blood and Transplant

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