§ Mr. Kirkwoodasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will ask all regional blood transfusion services to tissue-type routinely all blood received from blood donors to discover whether they may be suitable for bone marrow donations; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mrs. CurrieThe National Blood Transfusion Service already has a procedure whereby regular blood donors may also volunteer to donate bone marrow. In those cases the individual can be tissue-typed either within the service, or referred to one of the specialist bone marrow registers.
It would not in our view be appropriate to tissue-type blood donors for this purpose unless they had also volunteered to be bone marrow donors.