Saturday, December 20, 2008

The Blood Donor

A NHS comrade has sent me a reminder that UNISON blood branches (yes, we do refer to them in this way) are supporting appeals by the National Blood service to donors that they should not forget to their appointments. There is a seasonal drop at this time of year.

The service has also been hit by the large numbers of donors being struck down by Flu and is running short of blood especially “O” Negative (see chart below).

Click on the Blood website and you can see how to make an appointment and the total stock levels of blood currently held.

Showing my age but if I remember rightly didn't Tony Hancock try to get out of his "duty" to be a blood donor by saying he would be a lollypop man or join the Young Conservatives?

Do your bit folks.


3 comments:

Nahuatl said...

I appreciate the good and necessary work done by the NBS, but at the same I wonder how much better they would be at saving lives if they ditched their discriminatory policy against gay men. A policy which has very little evidentiary backing.

John Gray said...

Good point. I think that UNISON has a similar policy against this discrimination as well.

Anonymous said...

I understand that their maybe different views on this

What must not happen as suggested by some is to ban blood collection from universities

unless you want people to die while we have a lovely political debate