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This National Blood Week we've been inspiring the country to get talking about blood types. Do you know yours? You can join the conversation by sharing your blood type on social media, using emojis 🅰🅱🆎🅾➖➕ or by simply talking to a friend...

We reveal the changes you’ll be seeing on the blood.co.uk website from June this year.

Suki is one of the youngest sickle cell patients to rely on regular blood transfusions. Her mum, Layla, shares their story.

Sasha Cooke works as Donor Carer Supervisor at our mobile City Team in London. She shares her story of altruistic kidney donation.

Jenny Cairns almost died after the birth of her son, Charlie, when she haemorrhaged very severely. Donated blood saved her life.

Dave received platelets during his treatment for leukaemia. His wife, Holly, shares their story.

An ambitious initiative to boost organ donation around the world.

April 7th marked the first-year anniversary of NHS Blood and Transplant collecting plasma to make life-saving medicine.

Blood clotting, also called coagulation, is an important process that reduces bleeding when we are injured. It happens whenever a blood vessel is damaged, whether the injury is a scratch on the skin or something more serious.

Jonathan Simpson started to donate five years ago to help others. In September 2021, he lost half of his blood volume and needed life-saving transfusions himself.