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Kidney transplants plummeted during pandemic, figures show

The number of kidney transplants fell significantly last year, new figures show. NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) said that there was a dramatic 32% fall in kidney transplants last year compared to pre-pandemic. Almost 4,600 people are currently ...

10 Mar 2022 at 01:25

Donors from Carlow wanted for human milk bank as Minister makes appeal

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Minister makes appeal for new donors for human milk bank

More donors are needed from Carlow and across Ireland for Northern Ireland’s only human milk bank – which helps premature and seriously ill babies, the health minister has said. Robin Swann visited the facility at the South West Acute Hospital ...

22 Aug 2022 at 20:33

Thousands of donors come forward to ease blood shortage

Thousands of people offered to donate blood in response to an amber alert over critically low stocks, NHS Blood and Transplant has said. Most appointments to donate blood this week are now fully booked, although the NHS is still appealing for ...

13 Oct 2022 at 15:59

NHS makes ‘urgent’ call for black blood donors

The NHS has issued an urgent call for more black blood donors. NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) said that a record level of blood donations are now needed every day to treat people with sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease is ...

06 Oct 2022 at 01:01

Patients with major blood loss to get ‘whole blood transfusions’ in new trial

Patients who have lost a significant amount of blood as a result of accident or injury are to be given “whole blood transfusions” in a bid to improve their chances of survival. Evidence from army medics working in battlefields ...

14 Dec 2022 at 01:01

Thousands more ambulance workers set to join strikes over pay and staffing

Thousands more ambulance workers have voted to strike in the long-running dispute over pay and staffing. Unison said the growing NHS dispute will now cover ambulance services and other NHS organisations across most parts of ...

17 Feb 2023 at 13:20

Fresh strike by NHS workers across England next month

Ambulance and other health staff including nurses and blood collection workers are to stage a fresh strike in an escalation of industrial action in the long-running dispute over pay. Unison announced that its members will ...

22 Feb 2023 at 17:50

New method of preserving donated kidneys ‘could mean fewer organs wasted’

A new method of preserving donated kidneys could reduce the number of organs being discarded, experts have suggested. Kidney Research UK revealed that around 100 kidneys could potentially be saved for transplant each ...

26 Sept 2022 at 01:01

Campaign launched as more black blood donors urgently needed

A campaign has been launched to raise awareness of the urgent need for more black blood donors. Some of the most influential black people in Britain including John Lewis partnership chair Dame Sharon White and ...

20 Apr 2023 at 00:01

Parents of three-year-old cancer patient urge others to opt in to organ donation

The parents of a three-year-old with liver cancer are urging families to proactively “opt in” to registering their child for organ donation. Katie and Graham Tatham, from London, are hoping for a donor for ...

05 Sept 2023 at 08:50

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Families of children waiting for heart transplant appeal for donors

The families of five children waiting for a heart transplant have joined together to ask people to consider becoming organ donors. Since the pandemic the number of available organs has dropped, leading to ...

21 Jul 2022 at 19:33

England’s blood service is one of the safest in the world today – health leaders

The blood service in England is “now one of the safest in the world,” NHS officials have said as the Infected Blood Inquiry has published its final report. The probe, one of the largest ever in the UK, ...

20 May 2024 at 08:18

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