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Latest stories
- Universal blood components – the way of the future?
- Giving blood saved my life
- "I don't know how you deal with all that blood"
- Blood plasma: making all the difference to patients
- “I’m grateful to be healthy enough to donate”
- Our improved donation safety check
- Safety at session
- Updates to the NHS Give Blood App
- Heart to Heart
- Ask the Experts - Summer 2021
- The journey of blood - at hospital
- Blood group basics
- Down Memory Lane
- Humans of blood donation
- Giving platelets with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
- Is this the longest-serving blood donor?
- Celebrating 25 years of Joely Bear
- The Mayor of Brent donates
- Dexter’s thank-you to platelet donors
- Saving lives over land and sea
- Saving Aiden
- Saving Aiden – an O negative story
- The journey of blood – at the session
- Patients and the public helping with research
- Life on the waiting list
- Giving Heidi and Evie new life
- Changes to help bring in Ro
- International donor hunt
- Call for more men to give blood
- O negative donors: part of the First Responders team
- Taking the plunge: giving blood for the first-time
- Spring resolutions
- What goes around
- Organ donation opt-out
- Living lifesavers
- Snow problem!
- Robert Ambrose: a donor remembered
- A brave new start
- Over 50 years of giving Ro
- B Positive ‘Rise Up’ and sing again…
- Students saving lives
- Patrick's Life Cycle
- Farewell to Steve
- Helping to Delete Blood Cancer
- “Blood donations let my daughter live life to the full”
- Organ donation and you – busting the myths
- Special blood for babies
- Zoe’s first donation
- First Responders: lifeblood of the emergency services
- “Thank you for letting me have some of your blood”
- Everyday he-Ro-es
- Why can’t I get an appointment?
- Striding back into the donor chair
- Animals can give blood too!
- Reducing our impact on the planet
- Thousands of "thank yous"
- National Thalassaemia Day
- "I want to give him a big hug and say thank you"
- Helping little Ezrah
- The Organ Donor Register at 25
- Focus on plasma
- Improving your online service
- The journey of blood – before the session
- Blood on board
- The Sound of Sickle
- Isolation Diaries by Emma Martin
- Mike Stredder - personal thank you
- Saving lives together
- Rare blood: the facts
- Journey of blood – after you donate
- The life-changing power of exchange transfusions
- Josh's incredible survival story
- New hope for patients with COVID-19
- An exact match
- 20 in 21
- How blood plasma can save lives
- A really important decision
- Amanda: the Donor Carer and the Evil Blood Keeper
- 25 black donors on my 25th birthday
- Thank you for the gift of life
- Pete's platelet pledge
- The journey of blood – testing, testing, testing!
- Help us to keep on saving and improving lives this winter
- Ask the experts
- The perfect match
- Bravery is not my middle name
- Blood plasma could help the most vulnerable
- New teaching resources for schools
- O negative blood donors saved my son's life
- Blood donors are saving my son's life
- The gift of certainty
- Your safety is our priority
- The journey of blood – on the road with logistics
- Ask the experts - Spring 2021
- I've spent most of my life in hospital
- UK plasma to be made available for medicine production
- "I don't know how you deal with all that blood" - O negative
- "I don't know how you deal with all that blood" - Ro
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Latest stories
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The Donor winter 2018
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- Caitlin Moran: Coming back for more
- Give the best gift of all this Christmas
- A message from Sally Johnson, interim chief executive
- "Thank you!"
- Call for blood donors to help with kidney transplant study
- Working out what the future holds for patients
- Changes are coming
- Helping premature babies
- The right type
- Coronavirus: blood donation and safety
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