Saving lives

All life is precious. Our work is dedicated to preserving it

No one knows if or when they might need a transfusion or transplant

But if the worst happens, we’re here to help patients get the treatment they need. The challenge is meeting patient demand. This means supplying enough safe blood and organs to hospitals, at the right time. It's a huge task, which requires medical, scientific, technical, marketing and logistical teams. Here's what we're doing to ensure we help as many people as possible.

Full end-to-end service

We process and safely deliver nearly 2 million donations a year. This needs efficient planning and integration at every level of the supply chain, from donation to transfusion or transplant. We’re constantly making our service more effective and accessible to patients and donors, and working with the NHS to lower costs for hospitals.

View our strategy

Caring for patients

Most of our service happens behind the scenes but we also have patient facing roles. Our Therapeutic Apheresis colleagues work with hospitals to provide life-saving treatments for patients with conditions such as leukaemia. Our diagnostic service helps find the right treatment for patients with rare blood conditions.

What we do

Discovering new treatments

Our innovative research programme helps us continually improve donor and patient health. We’re constantly developing safer and more effective products, as well as running landmark trials to push medical boundaries and save more lives.

Explore our research

Campaigning for life

A big part of our work is educating the public, changing perceptions and encouraging more people to donate. We run national campaigns and work with local communities. Our aim is to match world-class performance in blood and organ donation. Can you help us?

Get involved

Building partnerships

Strategic partnerships are a great way for us to reach more people and increase the number of people donating blood and joining the NHS Organ Donor Register. We’re working with organisations and councils across the country and always on the look out for more partners.

Become a partner

We can’t do it without you

Our service relies on the generosity of volunteer donors. Each year our donors give just under two million donations of blood and 3,500 organs, saving and transforming thousands of lives. It’s the most valuable gift you can give.

Donate