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2021/22 will represent a year of recovery for NHSBT, as well as an opportunity to lock in positive change, and build equity and innovation into our culture and services.

The campaign, which launches on 21 July, will highlight the number of donors needed over the summer to meet targets.

NHSBT Chief Nurse Catherine Howell has been awarded a Chief Nursing Officer’s Award for outstanding contribution to patient care throughout her career.

A novel tool that uses AI to detect new disease outbreaks sooner, that was first developed by an NHSBT scientist and his colleague at the University of Cambridge, has today been awarded a substantial funding prize by the Trinity Challenge.

British Asian music artists have recorded a new version of the song ‘Hero’ as part of an urgent call for members of the British South Asian community to pledge their support for organ donation and potentially save lives.

Three tireless campaigners have been awarded Honours in the Queen’s 2021 Birthday Honours List.

The comedian Jason Manford made his first lifesaving donation of plasma for medicines at the Bolton donor centre, inspired by his mum Sharon who is a new recruit at the site.

New eligibility rules that will allow more men who have sex with men to donate blood, platelets and plasma come into effect this week.

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is joining blood supply organisations from around the world, forming an international collaboration which promises to make future blood transfusion therapy more efficient, more accurate, standardized, and safer.

The Government has directed us to keep collecting plasma for medicines and provided funding until at least March 2022.

Twickenham Plasma Donor centre has reached the 1,000 plasma donations milestone, less than two months after collections began.