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11 February 2025

London’s key emergency services back call for more life-saving O negative blood donations

London’s Air Ambulance, London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade have come together to support NHS Blood and Transplant’s appeal for donors.

03 February 2025

The NHSBT-led RESTORE trial into growing blood featured in The New Yorker

RESTORE is the first trial in the world to transfuse lab-grown red blood cells into other people and features in The New Yorker magazine.

22 January 2025

Brixton honours sickle cell pioneer at unique new NHS blood donor centre specifically designed to inspire the local community to give blood

A plaque honouring the lifesaving work of the country’s first sickle cell nurse counsellor, Dame Elizabeth Anionwu OM, will be unveiled at London’s newest and boldest blood donor centre in the heart of Brixton, on Wednesday 22 January.

31 December 2024

Chief Medical Officer, Dr Gail Miflin, recognised for services to blood and plasma in New Year’s Honours

NHS Blood and Transplant’s (NHSBT) Chief Medical Officer, Dr Gail Miflin, has been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours list for services to blood and plasma.

23 December 2024

Fantastic response to BBC Casualty's Christmas special on blood donation

The NHS has hailed a fantastic response to the BBC Casualty Christmas special which saw a huge uplift in bookings.

19 December 2024

A way to test the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen by measuring their shape developed

Scientists have developed a way of assessing the ability of red blood cells to deliver oxygen by measuring their shape, which could improve specialist transplant and transfusion practice as well as blood banking.

16 December 2024

More than half the children transformed into dolls as part of an award-winning national organ donation campaign have now received a lifesaving transplant in time for Christmas

More than half of a group of children who were transformed into handmade dolls have received their life-saving organ transplants in time for Christmas. But hundreds of children are still waiting for a gift Santa can’t bring.

09 December 2024

Mum who received 65 units of blood products before last Christmas supports blood appeal

Adele Darlington, who needed blood products after suffering a massive bleed while giving birth a year ago, has met the NHS staff who urgently sent blood to the hospital.

05 December 2024

MPs help celebrate the 100,000 lives saved through organ donation in the UK over the last 30 years

NHS Blood and Transplant hosted a joint event with Kidney Care UK with patients, MPs, ministers, and policy makers coming together to hear how more than 100,000 transplants have taken place since the creation of the NHS Organ Donor Register.

20 November 2024

New blood donation monitoring for viruses which could be driven to the UK by climate change

NHS Blood and Transplant is from today creating a new warning system to detect newly emerging viruses potentially reaching the UK due to climate change.

11 November 2024

Next 6 weeks crucial for Christmas blood stocks as NHS warns of December slump in donations

The NHS in England is urging donors to book and stick to their appointments in the lead up to Christmas to ensure we have the blood needed by hospitals this Christmas.

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