HC Deb 29 June 1990 vol 175 c370W
Mr. John Marshall

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will give the total number of cadaver kidney transplants carried out in the latest year for which figures are available at each of the health districts of Riverside, Bloomsbury, Hampstead, City and Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham and Southwark, Camberwell, West Lambeth and the Hammersmith special health authority.

Mr. Dorrell

[holding answer 26 June 1990]: According to information provided by the United Kingdom Transplant Service, the number of cadaveric kidney transplants carried out in 1989 in the district health authorities specified was as follows:

Health Authority Number
Riverside 25
Bloomsbury 23
Hampstead 33
City and Hackney 48
Tower Hamlets 54
Lewisham and North Southwark 70
Camberwell 32
West Lambeth 22
Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's special health authority 35

We are pleased to announce that the number of cadaveric kidney transplants carried out in the United Kingdom in 1989 was a record. The total of 1,732 transplants represents a 10 per cent. increase on the achievement of the previous year.

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