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22 December 2025

Because of you, we had one more Christmas: The power of blood donation

Over one-third of all donations are used to help patients living with cancer and receiving cancer treatment.

19 December 2025

Special Days – An Appeal to Scotland’s Donors

Blood has a shelf life of up to 35 days, so why do we badly need people to come forward to our Donor Centres on special days such as Christmas Eve, Boxing Day, Hogmanay and 2nd January?

December give blood sessions will take place at The Overgate.

Colleagues from Spirit Energy in Aberdeen used a corporate booking as a way to get back into the habit of giving blood.

Could your company help save lives? Inverness Donor Centre is actively seeking to welcome employees from local companies as part of their corporate blood donation programme.

Scotland aims to have five to seven days’ supply of all eight blood groups and currently supplies are within these levels for 3 out of the 8 blood groups.

Blood donors from across the country star in new outdoor campaign, and have their reaction to seeing themselves in print captured.

Donors who have travelled to some areas of France and to Monaco are asked to wait before donating due to a small number of cases of Dengue fever.

SNBTS are delighted to announce that blood donor sessions will return to Culloden in October 2022.

We have become aware of scam text messages or emails that look as if they are from an NHS account.

Current blood stock levels across Scotland Thursday 08 January

We aim to retain 6 days of stocks at any time in order to meet the requirements of patients in Scotland.

Learn more about blood types