National Transplant Week, 4 - 10 July 2011

EDM number 2096 in 2010-12, proposed by Joan Ruddock on 18/07/2011.
Categorised under the topic of Health education and preventive medicine.

That this House congratulates the NHS for achieving a 26 per cent. increase in deceased organ donation in 2010-11; welcomes NHS Blood and Transplant's strategic objective to increase deceased organ donation by 60 per cent. from 2007-08 levels by 2013-14; regrets that threepeople continue to die every day while waiting for an organ transplant; notes that, in addition to improving and saving lives, increasing organ transplantation by 60 per cent. would save the NHS in excess of 500 million each year; and calls on the Government to prioritise organ donation and transplantation during the reform of the NHS to ensure a significant increase in the number of organ transplants.

This motion has been signed by a total of 24 MPs.