Families who are demanding to know whether organs held by two Sussex NHS trusts belong to their loved ones will start getting answers next week.

The Government today announced Mid Sussex and Worthing and Southlands were among the first 100 trusts in the country to have "accurate" details available.

It means worried relatives will finally be able to decide what they want to do with the organs and whether they want them back.

Others may learn for the first time that organs have been retained.

The two other Sussex trusts involved in the scandal, Royal West Sussex, which runs St Richard's Hospital in Chichester and Eastbourne Hospitals NHS Trust, are expected to be ready to contact relatives in the next few weeks.

All four trusts were swamped with calls after it was revealed in the wake of the Alder Hey scandal in January that they had kept more than 200 organs.

Mid-Sussex, which runs the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath, had stored around 150 organs while Worthing and Southlands had 50.

Staff have carried out extensive searches, checks and audits and Margaret Brazier, chairman of the Retained Organs Commission, said trusts were confident they could give "fully correct and accurate" information.

She added: "Many people will be reassured to learn that none of their relatives' organs have been retained.

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