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NHS donor plea to fill over 60,000 appointments available over next 6 weeks as hot weather, holidays and high demand hits vital blood stocks
An urgent appeal has been issued to blood and platelet donors across England to help fill over 60,000 appointments available across the country as the NHS faces a significant shortfall in blood stocks.
Metallica concert NHSBT Charity Prize Draw
Enter the NHSBT Charity prize draw for a chance to win 2 tickets for the Metallica M72 Tour London Stadium concert on Sunday 5th July!
Metallica blood donation giveaway starts as hot weather hits blood stocks
Metallica are teaming up with NHS Blood and Transplant to call on fans across England to book a blood donation and help save lives, as the band continues the UK leg of their worldwide M72 tour.
"Plasma saved my dad's life" – daughter donates plasma in honour of father who beat cancer and Guillain-Barré Syndrome
Lauren Marshall, 37, from Alcester, Warwickshire, began donating plasma before her father Tony was ever diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Emergency LOW-GOS: High profile partners lend their logos to highlight sickle cell blood stock shortage
NHS Blood and Transplant has launched a new digital out of home campaign to highlight low blood stocks of vital blood types needed to treat sickle cell in England.
Simply Sayo Calls on Young Black Londoners to Give Blood During National Blood Week with her ‘It Takes a Village’ campaign
Content creator Adesayo Talabi, also known as Simply Sayo, is calling on more young people, particularly those from Black heritage communities, to roll up their sleeves and donate blood.
Boy who lost 3 times his body’s volume of blood thanks donors for ‘the birthday I didn’t think I would have’
A boy saved by a major emergency transfusion after losing 7 litres of blood is urging more people to donate as the NHS reveals fewer people are donating critical blood types – including vital O negative that saved his life.
Metallica team up with UK Blood Services to save lives
The first ever collaboration between UK blood services and a global rock phenomenon brings blood donation and live music together, encouraging music fans across Wales, England and Scotland to help save lives.
Donors whose blood has been used the most times to save unborn babies
NHSBT can reveal the donors whose blood has been used the most times to make the product used in one of riskiest, most complex and rarest lifesaving transfusions – given when a baby is still in the womb.
Donated plasma restores woman's eyesight, lost after birth of first child
A woman from Cornwall, who lost the sight in both eyes after the birth of her first child, has had it restored thanks to blood and plasma donors across the country.