HC Deb 29 January 1979 vol 961 cc311-2W
Mr. Wrigglesworth

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if his estimates of the cost of establishing a national transplant register which he gave on 13 November 1978 take into account the possibility of using some of the existing facilities at the United Kingdom transplant centre in Bristol.

Mr. Moyle

No. The small computer at United Kingdom transplant keeps detailed clinical data on the relatively small number of people awaiting kidney transplants. Those facilities are not suitable for recording data on the scale required for a national register of organ donors.