Organs: Donors

(asked on 11th March 2015) - 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 were registered as organ donors in each of the last three years.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 18th March 2015

The information requested is in the following table.

Pendle Constituency

East Lancashire2

North West (formerly NW Strategic Health Authority) 3

Population estimates1

89,613

530,605

7,084,337

As at 31 March 2013

Number on the Organ Donor Register (ODR)

19,505

121,393

1,838,938

% of population on the ODR

21.8%

22.9%

26.0%

As at 31 March 2014

Number on the ODR

20,538

128,042

1,944,244

% of population on the ODR

22.9%

24.1%

27.4%

As at 12 March 2015

Number on the ODR

22,600

141,902

2,148,575

% of population on the ODR

25.2%

26.7%

30.3%

Source: NHS Blood and Transplant

Notes:

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 Former NW Strategic Health Authority 9areas now grouped by Clinical Commissioning Groups on a regional basis) comprises:

Ashton, Leigh and Wigan

Blackburn with Darwen

Blackpool

Bolton

Bury

Central and Eastern Cheshire

Central Lancashire

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

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