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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.

Increasing consent rates for organ donation and making the most of donated organs for transplant are the two key aims set out in a new UK wide organ donation strategy.

NHS Blood and Transplant is carrying out a study in the Birmingham region aimed at confirming whether vaccination creates a huge increase in antibody levels in people who have already had coronavirus.

Thursday 20 May marks one year since Max and Keira’s Law (Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act 2020) came into effect in England, which saw the country shift to an ‘opt out’ system for organ donation.

Some of the questions that blood, plasma and platelet donors are asked to check their eligibility to donate will change from June 14 2021, marking an historic move to make blood donation more inclusive without affecting safety.

The NHSBT blood donor management research project, STRIDES, now has more than one million donors taking part in the main cluster randomised trial, just 18 months after its launch.

A well-loved colleague, Narendra was 68 years old and had worked for NHS Blood and Transplant since September 1969.