§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if persons who have received human growth hormone treatment are excluded from organ donor programmes.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe Department has advised clinicians, when considering organ transplantation, to check whether or not the donor had been treated with human growth hormone at any time prior to May 1985 when that treatment was withdrawn.
§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps have been taken to prevent recipients of human growth hormone treatments becoming blood donors.
§ Mr. SackvilleRecipients of pituitary derived human growth hormone are included in a list of specific groups who must not give blood. This list is shown to all potential blood donors. Furthermore, when human growth hormone recipients are counselled as part of the national counselling programme now under way they are advised not to give blood.