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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”

Plasma Donation Week: celebrating the life-saving donors who help people like Candi

Many people don’t realise that they can donate plasma. How much do you know about plasma donation? Check out our Q&A.

Patients being treated with for the condition with regular blood transfusions need, on average, the support of 100 donors every year. Life-saving siblings Kishma and Gemel are two of those donors