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NHS leaders calling for more blood donors after 20 years of newborn sickle cell screening

Twenty years after the introduction of newborn screening for sickle cell disorder in England, NHS leaders are calling for more people to become regular blood donors as demand for lifesaving transfusions continues to rise.

Black London runners take on the Big Half to put blood donation at the heart of the community

A group of Black London runners will take to the streets of the capital for the Big Half on Sunday 6 September, to encourage more people of Black heritage to discover their blood type, register as blood donors and help save lives.

Bristol brothers whose lives depend on plasma medicines go behind the scenes of blood and plasma processing

2 brothers from Bristol visited NHS Blood and Transplant's largest blood testing and processing facility in Filton to see first-hand how blood donations help create the life-saving treatments they rely on.

Campaigns

We run various campaigns to find the 135,000 new donors we need each year and encourage them to carry on donating.

Are you the giving type?

We're celebrating our amazing donors and inviting the nation's giving types to donate.

Discover how giving helps

Love is in the blood

Our new YouTube show in partnership with Channel 4 follows 8 singletons who go on blind dates behind dividers while they donate to help save lives.

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The Donor

Remarkable stories from the world of giving blood.

The Benefits of Reading

Whether it’s a pulpy page-turner, a fascinating non-fiction book, or an article from The Donor, reading has proven benefits – including for blood, plasma and platelet donors. In the National Year of Reading, find out how reading can help you.

The phoenix club: Birmingham Transplant FC

At 17, Rowan Caney was living his dream, playing for Aston Villa’s youth side and dreaming of a professional contract. Then he was diagnosed with severe aplastic anaemia, needing blood and platelet transfusions and a stem cell transplant.

“The birthday I didn’t think I would have”

Birthdays are occasions where we often express our gratitude, but Elliot Wills says he only experienced his 14th birthday thanks to blood donors.

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