News and statements
Mum who survived car accident meets blood donor who helped save her life
Emily and Karl are supporting a National Blood Week appeal for new male blood donors.
London Blood Donor Centre is now the busiest in Europe
London’s West End Blood Donor Centre can collect 60,000 units of blood a year.
National Blood Week is 10 - 16 June 2019
We’ll be highlighting some of the key issues in blood donation – such as the urgent need for black blood donors, male blood donors, and O negative donors.
Urgent appeal for 5,200 new black blood donors in key areas
Black people in three key areas are being urged to register to give blood after new figures revealed an urgent shortage of black donors.
B Positive choir to perform in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen
The B Positive choir will on Monday (March 11) have the honour of performing at the annual Commonwealth Service in Westminster Abbey, in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen.
4,900 new blood donors needed this February
We're recruiting new donors with high priority blood types.
B Positive star with life threatening disease in real time blood donation campaign
Advertising screens in some of the UK’s biggest cities will show hard-hitting statistics and real-life images of people whose lives were saved through blood donation, such as B Positive star Mary Adeturinmo.
Call the Midwife episode prompts people to register as blood donors
An episode of the BBC series, Call the Midwife has led to a 46% increase in people registering as new blood donors
Call for more men to give blood as new figures show twice as many women as men became New Year donors
NHS Blood and Transplant is urging men to match women in making becoming a blood donor their New Year’s resolution for 2019.
Newlywed with terminal cancer urges people to keep Christmas blood donation appointments
A new bride was able to spend her first - and probably last - Christmas with her new husband thanks to blood donors.