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In a world-first, thousands of people with sickle cell will now have access to a new genetic test on the NHS that will provide them with better-matched blood transfusions.

If you are eligible to donate blood, platelets, or plasma in the coming weeks, please consider booking an appointment for this busy period to help provide the NHS with what it needs to continue saving and improving people’s lives.

Before she received her first transfusion, Jasmine Barnett’s platelet count was one sixtieth what it should have been.

Before she received her first transfusion, Jasmine Barnett’s platelet count was one sixtieth what it should have been.

When Darren Dowlen helped to build NHS Blood and Transplant’s Barnsley centre in 2018, he couldn’t have predicted that he’d be inside the building one day, looking at the stem cells that would be helping to save his life.

Joe was on a camping and walking holiday in the Lake District when it happened. Walking on Helvellyn, the third highest mountain in England, he lost his footing and fell 200m – around 60 storeys – down a slope.

A major milestone in living kidney donation history was reached recently, with the thousandth non-directed altruistic living kidney donation taking place at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust.

Do you believe in love at first sight? How about love at first donation? The first time David Arnold gave blood he got more than he bargained for.

Could you be one of the “random strangers” to save a life like Aurora’s?

Plasma – the “magical fluid that can bring somebody back”