§ Mr. Kirkwoodasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will estimate, for the most recent year for which figures are available, what percentage of those patients considered suitable for a heart transplant in fact received one.
§ Mrs. CurrieInformation is not readily available in the form requested. Returns from the heart transplant centres at Papworth, Harefield and Newcastle show that between 1 April 1985 and 31 March 1986, 145 National Health Service patients received heart transplants, and that during the same period 284 National Health Service patients were assessed for transplantation, though a number of these will have been considered unsuitable and some others may have had a transplant after 31 March 1986.