Blood: Donors
(asked on 5th February 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the change has been in the number of people making blood donations between 2008 and 2018.
NHS Blood and Transplant is responsible for the collection, manufacturing and issuing of blood products to the NHS in England. NHS Blood and Transplant collects around 1.5 million blood donations every year to make sure hospitals have the blood they need to treat patients.
The following table below shows that the number of active blood donors has decreased by 11.61% between 2008 and 2018.
Date | Active Donors1 |
January - December 2008 | 1,478,332 |
January - Dec ember 2009 | 1,447,808 |
January - December 2010 | 1,408,849 |
January - December 2011 | 1,375,145 |
January - December 2012 | 1,330,783 |
January - December 2013 | 1,289,266 |
January - December 2014 | 1,237,652 |
January - December 2015 | 1,281,695 |
January - December 2016 | 1,275,292 |
January - December 2017 | 1,259,175 |
January - December 2018 | 1,306,752 |
Source: NHS Blood and Transplant
Note:
1The data are based on a two-year measure. This is because up until 2014, NHS Blood and Transplant’s active donor base was based on donors who had made at least one donation within two years, and not within one year as is now the case with NHS Blood and Transplant.