Talk with Minister to Increase Donors After Sister's Transplant
The Bath Chronicle › December 01, 2011
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A Bath student whose sister's life was saved by a double lung transplant was meeting ministers yesterday to discuss ways of boosting the number of people on the organ donor register.
Bath Spa University undergraduate Abby Thackray, 21, of Lower Bristol Road, was 16 when her older sister Emily was first told she needed the operation. Along with her friend Hope Milne, 15, whose younger brother had a bowel transplant after intestinal failure, she met health minister Anne Milton and the constitutional reform minister Mark Harper. They discussed the possibility of adding a tick box on electoral registration forms to allow people to sign up to the organ donor register.See the full content of this document
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Talk with Minister to Increase Donors After Sister's Transplant
Abby said the idea came from Chippenham MP Duncan Hames, who is Hope's local MP.
She sai...See the full content of this document
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