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NHS Blood and Transplant will be providing more advanced blood transfusions, closer to home, for people with the serious blood disorder sickle cell.

This National Blood Week (9 to 15 June) the NHS is calling on 1 million people in England to give blood - and help create the country's largest volunteering force - to stabilise the nation's blood supply.

A man has travelled over 10,000 miles to meet the stranger who saved his life by donating his stem cells through the NHS Stem Cell Donor Registry.

NHS Blood and Transplant-led researchers set out to test whether different haemoglobin thresholds could safely be carried out for a group of children who need repeated transfusions.

Almost 100 people have given blood at an ‘inspiring’ donation session supported by the family of Elsie Dot Stancombe, one of the young victims of the tragic Southport attack last summer.

A Bristol centre has been used as a blueprint for the rollout of a service that will see fewer patients need to go into surgery, reduce the time patients spend in hospital, improve patient safety and experience and save the NHS money.

A critical appeal has been issued to blood and platelet donors across England to help fill over 50,000 available appointments at town and city centre donor centres as the NHS warns of a looming shortfall in blood stocks.

More than 70 family members and friends of a 14-year-old girl from Greater Manchester who sadly died from acute liver failure gave blood in her memory at an emotional donation session held at the school she attended.

A 'thankful' mum has praised the 'lifesavers' who donated blood which helped treat her four-year-old daughter from a rare form of cancer.

For the first time in the UK, a woman has given birth following a womb transplant from a living donor.

Deborah Gosling met recipient Corinne Hutton to support the NHS Blood and Transplant campaign for more people to donate organs and tissue to save and improve lives.