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- Platelet donor John takes on ‘20 in 20’ challenge
- Harlequins help NHS secure 1,000 plasma donations for COVID-19 treatment
- Highest ever number of organ donors, despite drop in numbers of people eligible to donate
- Jersey organ donation law change comes into effect
- Jains support change in law on organ donation
- Organ donation law change gains Scottish Parliament support
- Two of the NHSBT team receive MBEs
- First person to donate lifesaving blood stem cells
- Pass it on campaign
- Decision to waive legal privilege
- NHS Blood and Transplant hosts conference to set blood transfusion priorities
- Momentous day for organ donation as Max and Keira’s Law achieves Royal Assent
- UK’s living kidney sharing scheme to hit 1000th transplants milestone this week
- Awards honour for ‘inspirational’ parents of three-year-old organ donor
- Professionals and volunteers recognised in organ donation and transplantation awards
- More young organ donors needed to save lives of children waiting
- Statement on proposed opt out organ donation legislation for England
- Helen Fridell and Piers White appointed as non-executive directors to NHS Blood and Transplant
- NHS Blood and Transplant appoints new Director of Organ Donation and Transplantation
- Funding boost to help promote organ donation among black and Asian communities
- Save the date! Organ Donation Week 2019
- Delight as campaigner receives double hand transplant
- Professor Armitage receives OBE
- London West End Blood Donation Centre to reopen on Christmas Eve
- Faith and beliefs declaration
- International blood
- Response to Wales achieving highest organ donation consent rates across the UK
- NHS Blood and Transplant appoints new Chief Executive
- NHS Blood and Transplant collaborates on pioneering new plasma filter project
- Talk about organ donation and help to save lives this Inter Faith Week
- Platelet transfusion study identifies a change that could improve outcomes for some premature babies
- New blood donor centre opens in Leicester with an appeal for 5,900 donors
- Health minister to work with MPs to stamp out organ shortages in BAME communities
- Shock horror: Blood donation among top fears of 18-24 year olds
- Cornea donation plea on World Sight Day
- Call for black donors to join the growing numbers saving lives giving blood and organs this Black History Month
- Patients with certain blood groups wait much longer for heart transplants
- Join us in celebrating Ada Lovelace Day 2018
- Infected blood inquiry statement
- Lung transplant waiting list up 46% in five years as donors get older
- Parents less likely to donate child’s organs, new figures show
- NHS Blood and Transplant partners with Kortical to deliver innovative project
- Survey reveals only a minority of black and Asian people in England are prepared to give the lifesaving gift of organ donation
- Interactive map shows proportion of population signed up to donate across the UK
- Longest waiting heart transplant patient in UK supports ‘no complacency’ call
- Simonne Kerr statement
- Help us go pink for Organ Donation Week
- NHS Blood and Transplant welcomes the Government initiative on opt out legislation
- Good Luck to all the participants at the Westfield Health British Transplant Games
- Mum of girl with rare blood disease donating due to urgent shortage
- Government campaign will focus on urgent shortage of black, Asian and minority ethnic organ donors
- Family of 83-year-old organ donor urges people to save lives as report reveals urgent shortage of older donors
- Project to increase living kidney donation among ethnic minority communities inspires 16 potential donors in its first year
- NHSBT interim Chief Executive announced
- Family’s campaign to create organ donor register has helped enable 18,000 life saving and life improving transplants
- NHS Blood and Transplant warns of a shortage of heart valve donors
- Busiest blood centre closing for refurbishment to collect up to 20,000 more donations a year from Londoners
- Paul Ince calls for more men to support England in a way that really matters – by giving blood
- NHSBT Director, Sally Johnson, receives OBE
- Scientists use gene editing to improve red blood cell transfusion compatibility
- See B Positive perform Rise Up and join our lifesaving donors
- Help avoid a double dip in blood donations this Easter
- Record number of organ donors and highest increase in 28 years
- Leukaemia patient received lifesaving transplant thanks to selfless NHSBT staff who battled through the bad weather to deliver stem cells
- Teachers can give pupils a voice on the organ donation ‘opt out’ consultation
- NHS Blood and Transplant assistant director guest curating @NHS Twitter account
- Please give your loved one an organ donor card this Valentine’s Day
- Essex woman appears on The One Show to explain how it inspired her husband to save five lives
- Make a #Date2Donate in 2018 to give blood
- One in five people on the national transplant waiting list live in London
- Make a resolution in 2018 that changes someone else’s life
- Heart transplant waiting list up by 24% this Christmas
- B Positive Choir and Lurine Cato say 'Rise up and Give Blood'
- Opt out consultation launched
- Blood donation rules have changed
- NHS Blood and Transplant encourages people to talk about organ donation during Interfaith Week
- Partnership with Team Margot to educate primary school students about giving to help others
- MOBO partners with us to launch B Positive choir
- NHS Blood and Transplant eye banks 21% below levels needed
- Early Cryoprecipitate in trauma- CRYOSTAT-2 trial commences
- Organ Tree Ltd, offering payment for deceased organ donation
- Organ Donation Week 4-10 September 2017
- Scientific review offers chance for more people to give blood
- #ImThere campaign calls for new black donors
- Chief Nurse awarded OBE for services to nursing
- Response to West London incident
- Response to London incident
- Response to Manchester incident
- Millie Banerjee appointed as Chair of NHS Blood and Transplant
- Major breakthrough in the manufacture of red blood cells
- Waiting time to kidney transplant down 18% but shortage of donors still costing lives
- NHS initiative drives blood and organ donation in Hillingdon
- Would you give a kidney, rather than your heart, this Valentine's Day?
- Parents share heartfelt letter honouring baby son who gave life through organ donation
- Change to NHSBT pricing of products in 2017/18 and introduction of universal screening for Hepatitis E
- Lord Jonathan Oates appointed as a non-executive director to NHS Blood and Transplant
- Faffing can be fatal, loafing can be lethal
- Survey reveals shift in attitudes towards organ donation among black and Asian communities
- NHSBT partners on study to help with shortage of eye donors
- Marking 40 years since the UK’s first successful heart transplant
- Immortalised blood cell lines enable new studies of malaria invasion
- Organ Donation Week 2019 Need for families to talk
- More black, Asian and minority ethnic people are becoming organ donors, but shortage remains critical
- Platelet donations help save young Dexter’s life
- Nearly a quarter of children waiting for an organ transplant need a heart
- Blood donor and her recipient brought together for emotional Sickle Cell Awareness Month appeal
- European Organ Donation Day: 12th October
- Cornea donation myths dispelled
- Young people have the biggest gender gap in blood donation
- Hindu and Jain communities show support for organ donation this Diwali
- Let's make this Black History Month another record for blood donor sign-ups
- Black community has highest ratio of patients waiting for a transplant to organ donors
- Organ donation process explained on BBC news
- NHS Organ Donation Register reaches 25-year milestone
- Wendy Clark appointed as Chief Digital and Information Officer
- Love Island finalist Curtis Pritchard gives blood on ITV's Lorraine
- Blood donation teams train with 'night vision' technology
- A precious gift as funeral directors sign up as blood and organ donors
- Need for more organ donors, to help patients with diabetes
- A lifesaving gift is on the Christmas list of thousands of people this year
- Kathleen reaches 1500 donation credits
- ‘Missing Type’ blood donation campaign named campaign of the decade
- Make your organ donation decision and tell your loved ones this Christmas
- Engagement with organ donation in BAME groups continues to grow
- Target for new male donors up 26% for 2020
- People donating a kidney altruistically peaks at five year high
- Local air ambulance supports O negative appeal after lifesaving transfusion
- Date announced for Max and Keira’s Law to come into effect
- NHSBT appoints two new Directors
- Extra coronavirus safety measures on blood donation sessions
- Coronavirus update
- Major COVID-19 convalescent plasma programme announced
- Coronavirus trial: People across England start donating plasma
- Organ donation law change due to come into effect in England on 20th May
- First COVID-19 patients receiving convalescent plasma transfusions
- More than 1,000 units of convalescent plasma now collected for COVID-19 patients
- Max and Keira’s Law comes into effect in England
- Plasma donor with highest coronavirus antibodies backs call for more donors
- Collaborative report into evidence on gay and bisexual men and blood donation still due in 2020
- First patient, a child, receives convalescent plasma through RECOVERY, the dedicated COVID-19 treatment trial
- Statement: Calling out racial injustice
- Superdrug nurses support major convalescent plasma programme
- Blood samples used for coronavirus research
- New text messages led to more than 10,000 people registering as COVID-19 plasma donors
- Asian donors more likely to have COVID-19 convalescent plasma which could save lives
- Men make more coronavirus antibodies than women
- Projects across England and Wales successfully promote organ donation amongst black and Asian communities
- 100,000 people have now offered to donate COVID-19 convalescent plasma
- Genomes front and centre of rare disease diagnosis
- One of the first COVID-19 convalescent plasma recipients supports donor appeal
- Stephen has donated more plasma into COVID-19 trial than anyone else
- Increased public support and new law offer hope for patients, despite impact of COVID-19
- Rosna Mortuza appointed as new Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
- UK’s first COVID-19 convalescent plasma recipient opens new donor centre at Westfield Stratford City
- Anthony Clarkson awarded Fellowship by the Royal College of Nursing
- Urgent appeal for COVID-19 plasma donations now to help trial during any second wave
- Oldest plasma donor who beat COVID-19 supports urgent appeal
- Hospitalised COVID survivors make most antibodies and make best plasma donors, data shows
- Urgent request for Asian people who’ve had COVID to donate plasma
- Man with highest COVID antibody test score for plasma donation backs donor appeal
- Donor appeal after September sees highest COVID convalescent plasma use
- Shortage of men who’ve had coronavirus offering to donate convalescent plasma
- NHS issues urgent plea for more people to share organ donation decision
- Record number of people from BAME backgrounds receiving lifesaving organs
- NHSBT scientists awarded £1.1 million for regenerative medicine research
- Men who’ve had coronavirus symptoms urged to donate plasma due to shortage of male donors
- Father of 29-year-old nurse who died of COVID-19 is now donating convalescent plasma
- First person to hit 10 donations of blood plasma for COVID treatment
- Join us in celebrating Ada Lovelace Day 2020
- Blood plasma donor appeal as Liverpool enters lockdown
- 14 new donor centres for world’s largest randomised COVID-19 plasma trial
- Funding to promote blood and organ donation among BAME communities
- First person to donate plasma after receiving plasma for COVID
- COVID plasma donor meets his recipient
- More blood plasma donors needed as hospital use rapidly rises
- UK awards for excellence in organ and tissue donation and transplantation
- Hindu and Jain communities spread light through Diwali arts competition
- Wasps player donates at Coventry’s new Ricoh Arena donor centre for COVID-19 plasma trial
- Consent rates strong six months on from introduction of Max and Keira’s Law
- Transfusion 2024: A five-year strategy to make transfusion care safer across NHS
- NHSBT and The African and Caribbean Leukemia Trust host live event promoting donation within BAME communities
- Appeal for more seriously ill COVID survivors to donate plasma
- New Therapeutic Apheresis Services unit opens at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Liverpool
- Welsh Health Minister celebrates that ‘Opt-out organ donation scheme has transformed lives’
- Appeal for Teeside people who were hospitalised with COVID to donate blood plasma
- Steering group concludes on a safe way for more men who have sex with men to give blood
- Millie Banerjee reappointed Chair of NHS Blood and Transplant
- Plasma trial results
- Coronavirus variant and convalescent plasma
- Recovery trial update
- Convalescent plasma donations for COVID-19 restarting
- Alfie is youngest COVID survivor to donate plasma for research
- New NHS campaign urges people to talk to family and ‘Leave Them Certain’ about organ donation
- Muslim community ambassadors launch appeal to donate plasma for COVID research
- New organ donation process enables pioneering diabetes research
- World-first paediatric heart transplant technique boosts number of life-saving operations for children in the UK
- UK Plasma Ban Lifted
- NHSBT and the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) announce funding competition
- Somerset man makes 19th plasma donation to help COVID research
- Funding boost to promote blood and organ donation amongst Black and Asian communities
- Transition of the plasma programme
- NHS Blood and Transplant awarded share of £18m gene therapy investment to help advance research into new treatments for patients
- Opt out system of organ and tissue donation begins in Scotland
- First blood plasma for medicines donations begin
- Statement on HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh
- A tribute to Narendra Parmar, Biomedical Scientist at NHSBT
- STRIDES study reaches million-donor milestone
- UK to change eligibility to give blood on World Blood Donor Day with launch of new donor safety assessment
- Family and public support helping save lives one year on from the introduction of Max and Keira’s Law
- NHSBT study into coronavirus vaccination and antibodies
- New UK strategy sets out ambition to be world leaders in organ donation and transplantation
- Twickenham hits 1000 plasma for medicines donation milestone
- Plasma for medicines donations to continue
- NHS Blood and Transplant join partnership putting genomics front and centre in blood matching
- Landmark change to blood donation eligibility rules on today’s World Blood Donor Day
- Jason Manford donates plasma for lifesaving medicines
- Queen’s Birthday Honours recognise Donation Champions
- British Asian Artists sing out for more people to be a ‘Hero’ in new organ donation appeal
- BloodCounts! Consortium with NHSBT scientist wins Trinity Challenge Prize for breakthrough in infectious disease detection
- Chief Nursing Officer’s Award for Catherine Howell
- Summer plasma campaign to launch in July
- NHSBT Business Plan launches
- Organ donation achieved three quarters of its normal activity last year despite global pandemic
- First plasma appeal over shortfall in donors following 20 year gap in donation
- HRH The Princess Royal opens new world class blood centre in Barnsley
- Millie Banerjee to step down as NHSBT chair
- Increased support for living donation vital to overcome impact of the pandemic for those waiting for transplant
- New guidance launched on writing to organ donors and their families
- NHS urges donors to switch from giving blood to platelets for Childhood Cancer Awareness month
- Schools are now teaching young people how to donate and save lives
- UK launches world’s largest ever randomised controlled trial in organ donation
- Organ Donation Week 2021
- Transplant children’s choir sing out for more people to talk about organ donation
- It's Black History Month
- Statement on the approval of crizanlizumab for sickle cell disorder
- Further FAIR steering group recommendations around HIV risk
- World Sight Day 2021
- Tissue donors are now being honoured with a special award
- Rosemary Cox awarded the Pride of Britain Lifetime Achievement Award
- Increasing our blood stocks this winter
- A tribute to Professor David Anstee
- Funding available to address shortage of donors amongst Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities
- The greatest gift this Christmas could be saving a life
- NHSBT Medical Director and organ donation champions honoured by Queen
- Convalescent plasma update
- Funding to tackle health inequalities and promote living kidney donation amongst Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities
- Stacey Dooley highlights importance of cornea donation in BBC podcast
- Northern Ireland welcome ‘Dáithí’s Law’
- Valentine's Day 2022
- Rare Disease Day highlights how plasma donation can help patients with rare disease
- Mother hoping for brighter future following ‘once in a lifetime’ sternum transplant
- Landmark donation eligibility change for Black African heritage donors
- NHS Blood and Transplant given a Silver Award for its commitment to become an LGBTQ+ inclusive employer
- Commonwealth Tribute to Life project
- World Kidney Day 2022
- New chair of NHS Blood and Transplant
- One year of plasma donations for medicines
- NHS Blood and Transplant launches £20m research units
- Family urges people to confirm their organ donation decision two years on from law change
- New non-executive director appointment
- National Blood Week: One million new blood donors needed over next 5 years
- First patient randomised into ‘super donor’ plasma trial
- NHS issues heartfelt plea for people to register their organ donation decision
- NHSBT Business Plan 2022/23 launches
- Commonwealth countries unite to increase organ donation and tackle health inequalities
- Statement on Sunday Times article
- Statement on HM Queen Elizabeth II
- This Organ Donation Week, talk about organ donation
- NHS scientists discover new blood group system
- Record demand for blood donations to help sickle cell patients prompts urgent call for more donors of Black heritage
- NHS teams up with Marvel Studios’ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
- First ever clinical trial of laboratory grown red blood cells being transfused into another person
- Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” star Danai Gurira urges people of Black heritage to donate blood
- New funding for local charities and community groups announced
- Air Ambulances begin trial transfusing ‘whole blood’ to potentially improve civilian and military trauma care
- More donors of Black and Asian heritage needed to help patients waiting for an organ transplant
- New product combining blood and plasma in one bag saves lives
- NHS Blood and Transplant announces new Chief Executive
- Life-changing hand transplant to be shown on BBC documentary
- New NHS centre for making products for revolutionary cell and gene therapies
- ‘Dáithí’s Law’ to come into effect from June
- #LIVEON campaign launch
- One of the first people to have a transfusion of lab-grown red blood cells says: ‘why wouldn’t you do it?’
- Statement on HSJ article
- Grassroots groups get £685,000 in Government funding
- Dried blood plasma project to help save soldiers’ lives launches
- World-First NHS Test To Curb Transfusion Side-effects For Thousands with Inherited Blood Disorders
- 'Dáithí’s Law’ comes into effect in Northern Ireland
- Black heritage donors giving blood in record numbers
- Ban lifted on use of UK plasma to manufacture life-saving albumin treatments
- Organ donation and transplant rates continue to recover, but opportunities for transplant still being missed
- NHS will get better blood and organ matching data from Our Future Health partnership
- NHS and Government take steps to boost Organ donation registrations
- Urgent call for young Black and Asian men to register as stem cell donors
- Annual safety report shows no impact on safety
- First patient has new cutting-edge therapy for cancer patients
- Increased proportion of people from ethnic minority backgrounds show their support for organ donation
- Plasma centre changes in December 2021
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