THE agonising wait for some Worcestershire families worried about what has happened to the organs of their dead relatives is finally over.

The Government today announced that Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust will begin releasing details from next week.

Worcestershire Community Health NHS Trust is also ready to send out information to worried relatives who have asked about organ retention.

But the Diana, Princess of Wales Children's Hospital in Birmingham was not on this morning's list.

The announcement follows weeks of extensive searches, checks and audits to provide "fully comprehensive and accurate" information to families who inundated hospitals with calls in the wake of the Alder Hey scandal.

Worcester mum Sue Harris learnt that doctors had taken her baby daughter's heart, 12 years after the youngster's death.

She said no amount of apologies could make what happened to Leanne any better.

"But I can't go through my life not knowing what they did to my daughter - knowing it could happen to someone else," she told the Evening News last November.

She said Leanne's heart was taken and then later thrown into the hospital incinerator.

Margaret Brazier, chairman of the retained organs commission, said the trusts were now "confident" they could give the correct responses.

"Many people will be reassured to learn that none of their relatives' organs have been retained," she said.

"Others will at least see an end to the uncertainty."

The Worcestershire trusts are among the first 100 in the country to be in a position to release details.