Specialist Services

Our Specialist Services cover a range of operational activities that we deliver to NHS patients. These include providing tissues, diagnostic services and stem cells that help to save the lives of desperately ill people. Demand for our Specialist Services continues to grow and we have seen a number of significant achievements in 2010/11:

• Tissue Services helped over 1,000 more patients than the previous year. As a result of talking, and listening, to more surgeons we have helped in excess of 5,000 more patients - an increase of over 1,000 in 2009/10.
  
  
• Specialist Therapeutic Services supported more patients than ever before, with an additional 107 life-saving and enhancing procedures delivered from six therapeutic apheresis units across England this brought the total to 3,607.
  
  
• We led the UK Stem Cell Strategic Forum at the request of Ministers and delivered a 10-year strategy with recommendations to save 200 patient lives a year. In December 2010 the Minister for Public Health, Anne Milton, endorsed the Forum recommendations and in January indicated a further allocation in 2011/12 to support collaboration between NHSBT and Anthony Nolan.