PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
HAVE A HEART ON VALENTINES DAY CAMPAIGN (13 February 2001)

That this House notes that on Valentine's Day many MPs will receive hearts and flowers but for many constituents the gift of a heart or kidney could be a lifesaver; hopes that the understandable anger and concern generated by reports of unauthorised organ retention does not have an adverse impact on the entirely separate issue of organ donation; notes that while over 6,000 people are on the waiting list for a transplant, only 14 per cent. of people are registered to donate their organs; regrets that the numbers waiting for a transplant increased by 55 per cent. over 10 years, with 5 per cent. fewer transplants in 1999 than in 1990, resulting in a mounting number of deaths each year as fewer organs become available; and calls on the Government to instigate a radical review of the organ donation system as a matter or urgency to ensure that this country has the most effective way of regulating and organising organ donation.

Sponsored by:
Dr Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat)