§ Mr. HayesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 29 January,Official Report, column 586, if he will list those who responded to the consultation document on the proposal to establish a national blood authority for England and those whom he has asked to be part of the technical working group to consider operational matters.
§ Mr. DorrellThe organisations which submitted comments in response to the consultation document are given in the table. Those who have been invited to nominate members for the technical working group are indicated with an asterisk.
- Alpha, Armour and Immuno Pharmaceutical Companies
- Association of Clinical Pathologists
- British Blood Transfusion Society
- British Society for Haematology
- Central Blood Laboratories Authority*
- College of Anaesthetists
- East Anglian Regional Health Authority
- Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's Special Health Authority
- Joint Consultants Committee of the British Medical Association
- Mersey and North Wales Regional Transfusion Centre
- Mersey Regional Health Authority
- Moorfields Eye Hospital
- Mount Vernon Hospital NHS Trust
- National Directorate of the National Blood Transfusion Service*
- National Association of Blood Donors
- National Blood Transfusion Service (Regional Transfusion Directors)*
- National Health Service Trust Federation
- North East Thames Regional Transfusion Centre
- Northern Regional Health Authority
- Northern Regional Blood Transfusion Service
- North Western Regional Health Authority
- North West Thames Regional Health Authority
- Oxford Regional Health Authority
- Oxford Regional Blood Transfusion Centre
- Pontefract Health Authority
- Public Health Laboratory Service
- Public Health Laboratory Service at Manchester
- Regional Health Authority Chairmen*
- Regional Directors of Public Health*
- Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Hospitals
- Royal College of Nursing
- Royal College of Physicians
- Royal College of Surgeons of England
- Senior Nurse Managers Group of the National Blood Transfusion Service
- South East and South West Thames Regional Health Authorities
- South Western Regional Transfusion Centre
- South Western Region Haematology Advisory Group
- The Haemophilia Society
- The Hospitals for Sick Children Special Health Authority
- The Royal College of Midwives Trust
- The Royal College of Pathologists
- The Royal Marsden Hospital
- Trent Blood Transfusion Service Board
- Trent Regional Health Authority
- Trent Regional Transfusion Centre
- United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Directors Organisation
- Wessex Regional Health Authority
- West Midlands Regional Transfusion Centre
- Yorkshire Regional Health Authority
In addition, 14 individuals have commented in a personal capacity.