Blood: Donors
(asked on 4th February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the prevalence of delays for blood donors.
This question was answered on 11th February 2015
In the six months from 1 August 2014 to 31 January 2015 NHS Blood and Transplant held 10,854 whole blood collection sessions, an average of 418 sessions per week.
Peak and average waiting times nationally for the last six months are recorded as:
| Peak Queuing Time (minutes) | Average Queuing Time (minutes) |
August 2014 | 50 | 20 |
September 2014 | 50 | 19 |
October 2014 | 49 | 20 |
November 2014 | 49 | 20 |
December 2014 | 49 | 20 |
January 2015 | 53 | 22 |
Source: NHS Blood and Transplant