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Information about ensuring blood and blood component safety.

• Updated: 5 March 2025

Find out how to access additional support services including those from the existing Infected Blood support schemes, charities and NHS.

• Updated: 21 May 2024

The first NHS patients in a generation have started to receive life-saving plasma from the blood of UK donors.

• Updated: 6 March 2025

What blood establishments, blood banks and manufacturers of blood products need to do to ensure the safety and quality of blood and blood products.

• Updated: 27 May 2021

Information about ensuring blood and blood component safety.

• Updated: 28 June 2023

The NHSBT and UKHSA surveillance programme is a series of national schemes that monitors infection in blood, tissue and organ donors, and transfusion recipients.

• Updated: 23 March 2022

The NHSBT / PHE epidemiology unit, and the epidemiology of infections among blood, tissue and organ donors and recipients.

• Updated: 10 November 2014

• Updated: 1 January 2013

Information and service documents on the national DBS testing service offered by PHE to improve uptake of 12 month testing of infants born to hepatitis B infected mothers.

• Updated: 24 August 2021

Forms to make a variation to a Blood establishment Authorisation