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NHS Blood and Transplant-led team discovers new blood group system MAL
NHS blood detectives have discovered a new blood group system, MAL, the 47th system to be discovered. This will enable better transfusion care for the very rare people who are AnWj negative, a blood type within the MAL blood group.
Patient recruitment to the NHSBT-led SWIFT trial finishes three months ahead of schedule
Thanks to the great support of partners including Air Ambulances and hospitals around the country, we have finished patient recruitment to the SWIFT trial three months early.
NHS plea for more donors of Black heritage – as three quarters of blood needed for sickle cell patients is used in London
New figures released by NHSBT show that last year 210 donations of blood were needed each day for treating patients with sickle cell disease across England, with over three quarters of this blood needed by hospitals in London.
NHS Blood and Transplant explain the science of blood groups during a new documentary 'Michael Mosley: Wonders of the Human Body'
NHS Blood and Transplant's Bristol blood processing site will feature during a new documentary where we explain the science of blood groups.
Drones successfully fly blood packs in longest ever ‘beyond visual line of sight’ flights in UK first
Blood packs have been successfully flown by drone in a series of ‘beyond visual line of sight’ flights, for the first time in the UK.
Parents of 11-week-old baby who needs urgent heart transplant urge families to think about organ donation
The parents of a baby who urgently needs a heart transplant are calling on families to think about organ donation. William Jones, 11 weeks old, is currently the youngest child in the UK on the urgent heart transplant waiting list.
NHS calls national blood shortage amber alert
National Amber Alert has been issued for O negative and O positive blood. O group donors are asked to urgently book and keep appointments at Donor Centres.
NHS senior leaders meet to plan how to make blood transfusion even safer
NHS senior leaders meet at the Transfusion Transformation Symposium, held by the National Blood Transfusion Committee, NHS Blood and Transplant and NHS England.
Boy’s first days outside six months after stem cell transplant from baby’s umbilical blood
Gunner Lewis-Vale received a stem cell transplant shortly after Christmas in January 2024, using umbilical cord blood cells generously donated to NHS Blood and Transplant just before Christmas 2008, 15 years earlier.
Extended blood group testing offered to everyone with sickle cell disorder, thalassaemia and transfusion-dependent rare inherited anaemias
This Sickle Cell Awareness Day, we’re sharing that nurses can offer extended blood group testing to everyone with sickle cell, thalassaemia and transfusion-dependent rare anaemias.
O positive and O negative donors asked to urgently book appointments to give blood following London hospitals IT incident
England’s top doctor has today (Monday 10 June) backed calls from NHS Blood and Transplant for O Positive and O Negative blood donors to urgently book appointments to donate following the cyber incident in London.
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