§ Mr. Dalyellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what conveniently available figures he has for the 499W numbers of patients over the last five years awaiting a transplanted kidney, who are unsuitable for long-term dialysis.
§ Mr. MoyleThe information in the form requested is available only for each of the last four years. The following table sets out the number of patients on the waiting list in the United Kingdom and the percentage of those patients for whom, for various reasons, long-term dialysis is not considered to be suitable and who are, therefore, in urgent need of a transplant. Most of the patients are on the waiting list not because long-term dialysis is unsuitable for them but because transplantation is the preferred form of treatment.
Waiting list Percentage of urgent cases 31st January 1975 … 900 6.4 31st January 1976 … 963 5.6 31st January 1977 … 1,187 5.8 31st January 1978 … 1,123 6.1
§ Mr. Dalyellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services when he will be commissioning his public attitude survey on kidney transplants, including a scheme of contracting out.
§ Mr. MoyleI hope that work on this survey will begin within the next few weeks and that it will be completed towards the end of the summer.