NHS bosses want one million more blood donors over the next five years. The Mirror reports NHS Blood and Transplant said it particularly needs those with the rarest blood types.
The number of active donors, those donating in the last year, fell during the pandemic from nearly 808,000 in March 2020 to just over 750,000 in February 2021. Stephen Cornes, of NHS Blood and Transplant, said: “We urgently need new black African and black Caribbean donors to come forward.
“We also need one million new donors over the next five years of all blood types. As the NHS treats more patients, we need to grow the total number of donors too.”
