News & Events

The guidelines for accepting male donors who have had sex with another man have changed.

The Welsh Bone Marrow Donor Registry is the first in the UK to introduce a new high resolution test which gives an accurate result of genetic compatibility between donor and patient for transplantation (tissue-typing).

The little boy in our summer campaign is Charlie. This is his story….

At the age of seventeen, Tracey West needed emergency surgery to remove a part of her bowel. During surgery and throughout her time in intensive care, Tracey required numerous amounts of blood transfusions.

Countries worldwide celebrated World Blood Donor Day (WBDD) with events to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products and to honour and thank millions of voluntary unpaid donors for their life-saving gifts of blood.

World Blood Donor Day is celebrated by blood services worldwide and takes place every year on 14th June. The chosen date has particular significance as it marks the birthday of Karl Landsteiner, the Nobel Prize winner in 1930, who discovered the ABO blood.

To raise awareness of the importance of regular blood donation the World Health Organisation called upon blood services across the globe to help ‘Paint the World Red’.

We invited children from twenty six primary schools in the local area to be creative and enter a colouring competition to help promote and raise awareness of our life-saving organisation.

Beijing gold medal cyclist Geraint Thomas took time out from training for the Tour De France to visit the Welsh Blood Service newly refurbished clinic in Talbot Green.

The Welsh Blood Service is pleased to announce that it is once again able to accept blood donations from donors 4 months after having a tattoo, body piercing or cosmetic treatment involving skin piercing.

Christmas and New Year was a very challenging time for the Welsh Blood Service

We occasionally need human interest stories to highlight the importance of blood and platelet donation.

The Welsh Blood Service, which collects blood in South, West and mid Wales, is making an urgent appeal for blood donors of groups O Rhesus Positive, A Rhesus Positive or O Rhesus Negative to come forward throughout January and make a lifesaving donation.

The little girl in our Christmas poster campaign is Orla Galton. Here is her story.

Childhood is meant to be carefree – a time for fun and adventures. But some children can face a lifetime of needing pain control treatments and regular blood transfusions to help manage the condition, sickle cell anaemia.

A blood donation clinic has opened at Welsh Blood Service HQ, Talbot Green

The Welsh Blood Service is seeking everyday heroes whose gift can help ‘make a difference’.

There are a number of mandatory blood safety tests carried out on every single blood and platelet donation we receive.

World Blood Donor Day (WBDD) is celebrated on June 14th every year. It is an opportunity to express gratitude to those who donate their blood in order to save lives, without expecting anything in return.

Football star John Hartson helped launch a new drive to recruit more platelet donors in a bid to maintain the supply of platelets to our Welsh hospitals.