Organs: Donors
(asked on 26th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people from BAME communities registered to become organ donors in each of the last five years; and what assessment he has made of trends in such registration.
Organ Donation Rate figures for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic registrations for the last five years are listed below:
Ethnicity | ||||||||
Financial year | White | Asian | Black | Chinese | Mixed | Other | Not stated | Total |
2011/12 | 161,367 | 8,562 | 2,022 | 537 | 3,203 | 607 | 911,509 | 1,087,807 |
2012/13 | 228,966 | 5,564 | 1,709 | 527 | 3,622 | 678 | 755,907 | 99,6973 |
2013/14 | 212,333 | 6,776 | 1,938 | 577 | 3,663 | 792 | 820,193 | 1,046,272 |
2014/15 | 204,546 | 6,764 | 1,891 | 598 | 3,593 | 860 | 741,993 | 960,245 |
2015/16 (1 April 2015 - 27 January 2016) | 352,455 | 9,210 | 3,012 | 977 | 6,215 | 1,780 | 57,3872 | 947,521 |
Total | 1,159,667 | 36,876 | 10,572 | 3,216 | 20,296 | 4,717 | 3,803,474 | 50,38,818 |
Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020: A UK Strategy, launched in 2013, aims to achieve world class performance in organ donation and transplantation. It was developed by NHS Blood and Transplant (NHBST) and the four United Kingdom Health Departments.
To achieve these aims, NHSBT has developed a behaviour change communication strategy and have a wide range of leaflets promoting organ donation that are translated into a number of different languages including Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu.
NHSBT has also promoted the need for more sign ups from black communities to the Organ Donation Register (ODR), during campaigns such as the ‘Be There’ initiative during Black History Month – which encouraged ODR registrations from the Black African, Black Caribbean and Black mixed race communities.