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A man who receives lifesaving blood used a new NHS virtual reality package to learn how blood is matched.

Several blood, plasma, and platelet donors at Birmingham donor centre were surprised with an appropriately coloured rose to mark Valentine’s Day and thank them for their life-saving generosity.

This World Cancer Day, NHS Blood and Transplant is urging blood donors who have blood types A negative, A positive and AB negative to consider switching to donating platelets.

The NHS is calling for more younger donors to give blood as it is revealed that for the first time in five years there are more donors over the age of 45 than under.

To mark the NHS 75th anniversary, students from London College of Communication developed a campaign to encourage more young people to give blood.

NHS Blood and Transplant has launched its first ever festive social media video to encourage people to give the gift of blood this winter.

Wolverhampton Wanderers support the ‘All Types Can Save Lives’ campaign to help people realise they may be able to donate plasma, which is used to treat more than 50 diseases.

The NHS is facing a significant challenge to recruit enough new plasma donors because many people don’t realise they are eligible to donate.

Birmingham’s Plasma Donor Centre is today [Thursday, September 14] holding a reopening ceremony following a move, modernisation and expansion to bring in 5,500 more plasma donations a year.

We need more of our A negative, A positive and AB negative giving types to donate differently and give platelets.