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This year’s National Blood Week will start on Monday, June 8th, finishing on June 14th, which is World Blood Donor Day.

Lucy and Greg Shaw of Bingley, West Yorkshire, made a life-saving appointment to give blood together

If you have travelled to a coronavirus risk area recently, your ability to give blood might be affected.

We run various campaigns to find the 135,000 new donors we need each year and encourage them to carry on donating.

Take a look at what happens at our What's Your Blood Type events.

Remarkable stories from the world of giving blood.

Mary's journey has taken her from one side of the Atlantic, and one side of blood donation, to the other.

Dexter Kidd's life was saved by the power of platelets.

We’ve been working hard to make improvements to both the website and the app based on the feedback we have received.

Get information about blood donation, arrange a visit and find expert spokespeople.

Email: pressoffice@nhsbt.nhs.uk

Phone: 01923 367600 (open 24 hours a day)

Due to the large volume of media enquiries we receive, we are not able to help students with research or other projects.

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