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24 November 2025

Donate in December: Give blood, platelets or plasma for Scotland

This year, Scotland needs 15,000 people to donate in December.

11 November 2025

Important: 50 days left to save a life

Scotland needs over 25,000 donors to give blood before Hogmanay

Find out more about high spec O negative blood, and why it's so special.

From 5th April onwards, we will be entering your health check responses directly onto the computer at health screening. This means the session will become more efficient in the long run – but you may initially notice a bit of a delay.

From April 2022 onwards we’ll be asking about your ethnicity to help match blood profiles to patients more effectively.

The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service has begun testing to find out whether donors have had Hepatitis B in the past.

Information on when you can give blood after travel outside the UK.

At this time, Ukraine has not requested support for blood supplies.

William McCook began donating when he was just nineteen.

Current blood stock levels across Scotland Saturday 29 November

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