HC Deb 14 July 1988 vol 137 c359W
Sir Michael McNair-Wilson

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services whether the names of those holding organ donor cards are entered on a centralised computer.

Mrs. Currie

The national donor card scheme is not related to computerised registers of potential organ donors. The intention of the donor card was described in my reply to my hon. Friend on 4 May at column504. At present we have no plans to establish a national register of potential donors. We wish to see an evaluation of the registers being established by the Manpower Services Commission, for example, in Birmingham and Sheffield, and of a similar scheme operating in Wales before giving further consideration to this question.

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