Organs: Donors
(asked on 12th January 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of people from BAME backgrounds in (a) Liverpool, Wavertree constituency and (b) the North West have registered on the organ donation register.
The proportion of people from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) background in Liverpool Wavertree and the North West on the Organ Donor Register and on the active transplant list (both as at 12 January 2015) are shown in the tables below.
Proportion on the Organ Donor Register
Area | White | BAME | Ethnicity not reported on ODR | Percentage of BAME reported on ODR |
Wavertree | 6,608 | 339 | 18,034 | 4.9% |
North West | 520,623 | 13,505 | 1,604,446 | 2.5% |
Source: NHS Blood and Transplant
Proportion on the active transplant list
Area | White | BAME | Ethnicity not reported on active list | Total |
Wavertree | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
North West | 672 | 146 | 17 | 835 |
Source: NHS Blood and Transplant