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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.
Genetics study points to potential treatments for restless leg syndrome
An international team of scientists, in collaboration with NHS Blood and Transplant, have discovered genetic clues to the cause of restless leg syndrome.
Statement on the Infected Blood Inquiry report
Our statement on the Infected Blood Inquiry report
79% of lifesaving NHS Blood and Transplant statisticians are female
NHS Blood and Transplant is celebrating International Women in Maths Day by highlighting that most members of the statistics team who work on the life-saving research and modelling that underpins organ, stem cell and blood donation are female.
£600,000 to address shortage of organ and blood donors from Black, Asian and Mixed Ethnic backgrounds
New funding opportunities are now available for local charities and community groups to address health inequalities for life-saving transplants or regular blood transfusions.
Double hand transplant patient receives ‘world first’ to stop organ rejection
A double hand transplant patient has undergone plasma exchange treatment in an attempt to stop rejection, in what is thought to be a world first.
Plasma 10 campaign aims to recruit Birmingham businesses to donate plasma
Renowned West Midlands businessman, Professor Paul Cadman, has launched the Plasma 10 campaign. The campaign aims to recruit ten donors from ten Birmingham businesses within a ten minute walk of the New Street plasma donor centre.
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