§ Dr. KumarTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the benefits of conducting targeted campaigns to encourage organ donation. [52454]
§ Jacqui SmithThe South Asian Campaign was launched in 1999. Research into the attitudes on general health issues and organ donation in particular helped to inform the development of this campaign. An evaluation of the campaign was carried out in October 2000 and this helped to inform phase III which was launched last September.
The black campaign was launched in March 2002. The campaign focuses on the fact that black people are three times as likely to develop kidney failure and that under 1 per cent. of organ donors are black. Research to help develop this campaign was undertaken through Central Office of Information Communications. The Department will monitor the progress of the campaign carefully.
§ Dr. KumarTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many Black and Asian organ donors there were in each of the past 10 years. [52452]
§ Jacqui SmithNumber of Black and Asian organ donors in the last 10 years in the United Kingdom is shown in the table.
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Year Black/Black British As percentage of adonors where ethnic origin recorded Asian/Asian British As percentage of donors where ethnic origin recorded 1995 0 0.0 9 4.7 1996 2 0.7 13 4.7 1997 2 0.7 3 1.1 1998 5 1.9 2 0.8 1999 4 1.5 3 1.1 2000 3 0.4 11 1.5 2001 6 0.8 7 0.9 20021 3 1.5 2 1.0 1 To 24 April 2002 The ethnic origin of donors only started being recorded on the National Transplant Database in 1995 and in the years 1995–99 there are still many cases where the ethnic origin is not recorded so the figures for these years may be underestimated.