§ Sir Patrick McNair-WilsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the number and location of the intensive therapy units in England and Wales; and how many organ donors have arisen in each during the past 12 months.
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§ Mr. SackvilleNot all intensive therapy units in England and Wales can be identified from information collected centrally. According to information provided by the United Kingdom Transplant Support Service Authority (UKTSSA) organs were retrieved from 732 donors in 216 units in England and Wales in 1992. The table gives the regional distribution:
Region Number of Units Number of Donors Northern 15 51 Yorkshire 9 59 Trent 16 67 East Anglian 10 33 North West Thames 13 32 North East Thames 20 55 South East and South West Thames 34 110 Wessex 10 34 Oxford 10 38 South Western 12 48 West Midlands 22 70 Mersey 14 37 North Western 18 61 Wales 13 37 Reports from UKTSSA showing the names of all these units, the number of donors in each of them and the names of all hospitals that have retrieved organs during the past ten years have been placed in the Library.