Blood: Donors
(asked on 18th May 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many completed blood donation appointments took place in past 12 months; and if he will provide the ethnic and gender breakdown of donors.
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is responsible for collecting blood donations across England to fulfil hospital requests to meet patient need.
NHSBT collects donor’s sex assigned at birth and gender identity; a donors’ sex is recorded as the ways in which blood products are donated and processed differ between those assigned male and female at birth. The following table shows the total number of completed blood donations broken down by sex assigned at birth between 1 May 2025 and 30 April 2026:
Sex assigned at birth | Total Donations |
Female | 683,725 |
Male | 737,260 |
Total | 1,420,985 |
Source: NHSBT Monthly Collections Dashboard
The following table shows the total number of completed blood donations between 1 May 2025 and 30 April 2026 by ethnicity:
Ethnicity | Total Donations |
Any other Asian background | 14,748 |
Asian Bangladeshi | 2,742 |
Asian Indian | 27,785 |
Asian Pakistani | 7,073 |
Chinese | 7,231 |
Any other Black/African/Caribbean background | 1,644 |
Black- African | 11,337 |
Black- Caribbean | 9,530 |
Any other Mixed / Multiple ethnic background | 7,888 |
Mixed White and Asian | 8,867 |
Mixed White and Black African | 2,802 |
Mixed White and Black Caribbean | 7,539 |
Any other White background | 76,272 |
English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish/British | 1,197,745 |
White Irish | 17,026 |
Any other ethnic group | 5,929 |
Arab | 4,385 |
Not Disclosed | 7,284 |
Unknown | 3,158 |
Total | 1,420,985 |
Source: NHSBT Monthly Collections Dashboard