§ Sir Michael McNair-WilsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospitals take part in providing organ removal facilities for the transplant programme; and if he will list the number of organs provided by hospitals in the various regions, either on a hospital-by-hospital basis or regionally during the past 12 months.
§ Mr. DorrellInformation on human organ removal facilities is not collected centrally. The table gives the numbers of centres providing organs and the numbers of organs retrieved by English regions in 1990, the latest year for which information is available.
Region Number of centres providing organs Number of organs provided1 Northern 20 179 Yorks and Humberside 12 126 Trent 13 149 East Anglia 12 97 North West Thames 13 147 North East Thames 21 196 South East and South West Thames 33 279 Wessex 13 140 Oxford 11 125 South Western 12 128 West Midlands 27 270 Mersey 14 106 North Western 22 222 Total 221 2,164 1 Based on information provided by the United Kingdom Transplant Support Service Authority for 1990.