§ Mrs. Currieasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a progress report on the donor transplant campaign launched earlier in 1984.
§ Mr. John PattenSince the launch on 22 February of the campaign to increase public awareness of the benefits of organ transplantation and to promote the donor card scheme, over 10 million new donor cards have been distributed and the numbers of kidneys and other organs transplanted have increased significantly. The number of kidney transplants notified to the United Kingdom Transplant Service during the period March to May 1984 was 399. This compares with 287 in the same months in 1983—an increase of nearly 40 per cent. We are grateful to the many people who have assisted in 523W publicising the need for donor organs and in distributing cards. I hope that these encouraging trends will continue and we will see more and more people signing and carrying donor cards and telling their relatives of their wishes.