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After an open and competitive recruitment process, NHS Blood and Transplant has today announced the appointment of Dr Jo Farrar CB OBE as its new Chief Executive.

A new blood product combining red blood cells and plasma in one bag is associated with a better survival from a penetrating major trauma injury, a new study has found.

A new report published today by NHS Blood and Transplant shows that there is a significant need for more organ donors of Black and Asian heritage, in order to help the growing number of patients waiting for life-saving transplants.

Air Ambulance crews to carry ‘whole blood’ instead of separate red blood cells and plasma for the treatment of severely injured patients at risk of bleeding to death.

£700,000 to address the shortage of organ, blood and stem cell donors from Black, Asian and mixed ethnic backgrounds has been announced.

The star has released an inspiring video appeal in support of the NHS campaign for more people of Black Caribbean and Black African heritage to donate blood.

Red blood cells that have been grown in a laboratory have now been transfused into another person in a world first clinical trial.

NHS Blood and Transplant is teaming up with Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in a huge boost to its new campaign to recruit more Black heritage blood donors.

The NHS is making an urgent call for more blood donors of Black heritage as new figures reveal a record 250 donations are now needed every day to treat sickle cell, the fastest growing genetic condition in the UK.

Scientists from NHS Blood and Transplant and the University of Bristol have discovered a new blood group system.

Almost 10,000 people in the UK are in need of a lifesaving transplant.