Use of a telephone advise line in an accident and emergency department

example, it had the third highest donation rate in the 16 regions of the United Kingdom.5Although nearly 300 000 people have registered, this represents just 14% of the adult populatation and is somewhat less than the proportion (20%) of people who carry donor cards in the United Kingdom.The recording of attitudes to blood donation has been more successful.Most registrants agreed to be blood donors.In 1992In , 2176 names were offered to the blood transfusion service, which subsequently obtained 2181 extra units ofblood.Over the next 10 years the donor registry is likely to enlarge by another 150 000 names.At present, how- ever, it is too small to have a substantial effect on the numbers of donors.