VOTE: Quarter of people on organ donor register in Warrington (From Warrington Guardian)

VOTE: Quarter of people on organ donor register in Warrington

3:14pm Monday 6th July 2009

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A QUARTER of Warrington residents want to donate their organs after death.

New figures, released for National Transplant Week, showed that 25.1 per cent of people in Warrington have signed up to the Organ Donor Register.

The figure is less than the national average, which is 27 per cent, and Scotland and the south west are the two areas with the most residents on the register. Each have 32 per cent of their population signed up.

The lowest sign up rate is 22 per cent in London and the West Midlands.

Sally Johnson, director of organ donation and transplantation at NHS Blood and Transplant, said: “While 90 per cent of people say they support organ donation, just 27 per cent have joined the NHS Organ Donor Register.

“If we are to meet the growing need for organs across the UK we really need more people sign up as organ donors.

“Our job at NHSBT (NHS Blood and Transplant) is to make sure that people know how to join and the difference they can make to the lives of others by signing up.”

Anyone can sign up as an organ donor. NHSBT encourages people to talk to their families about organ donation so that their wishes are known and can be respected.

For more information, or to sign up to the NHS Organ Donor Register, call the donor helpline on 0300 123 23 23 or visit organdonation.nhs.uk.

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