HC Deb 09 February 1970 vol 795 c882
5. Mr. Lane

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what progress he has made in his efforts to facilitate kidney transplant operations.

Mr. Crossman

Controlled development is proceeding in a number of selected centres. A special laboratory service has been set up to collate and disseminate tissue typing data for the use of renal transplantation centres.

Mr. Lane

Quite apart from the question of changes in legislation, could not the Government put more urgency into the possibility of developing a central organisation, based on a computer, with the tissue types of potential recipients and a start on a register of people who wanted to contract in or contract out as potential donors?

Mr. Crossman

I will certainly consider that possibility, but meanwhile we are concerned with the narrower issue to which I have alluded.