§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many patients in the West Midlands region are presently waiting for a kidney transplant; and how many kidney transplants were carried out in hospitals in the region during the last 12 months.
§ Mr. WhitneyAccording to provisional figures from the United Kingdom transplant service, 117 kidney transplant operations were performed during 1985 at the two renal transplant units in the West Midlands region, the Queen Elizabeth hospital, Birmingham, and the North Staffordshire royal infirmary, Stoke-on-Trent. The number of patients who were registered at the end of 1985 as awaiting a kidney transplant at these two centres was 193.