Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether blood donations from people who have not been vaccinated against covid-19 are separately identified; and whether people who require such blood are able to access it.

In the United Kingdom, blood donations are not identified based on the donor’s COVID-19 vaccination status.

The Joint United Kingdom Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Services Professional Advisory Committee (JPAC) provide guidelines for the UK Blood Transfusion Services. JPAC published a position statement in July 2021, which was updated in November 2022, outlining that UK Blood Services cannot provide information about the COVID-19 vaccine status of donors to recipients and that this is not necessary from a safety or efficacy perspective.