Closure Of Services At Liverpool Blood Transfusion Centre

EDM number 30 in 1997-98, proposed by Louise Ellman on 20/05/1997.

That this House deplores the proposal by the National Blood Authority to remove blood processing from the Liverpool centre, resulting from cut-backs in the service under the last Conservative Government; notes that this would mean the whole region would be reliant for blood processing on one centre and that this would have serious implications, particularly for the production of platelets; further notes that this work is labour-intensive and that the centre is vital in motivating the blood donors across Merseyside and North Wales; and therefore urges the new Government to intervene to consider the implications of closure with the objective of securing the future of the centre serving Merseyside and North Wales.

This motion has been signed by a total of 33 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.