Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 39557

Blood

Tabled: 19 March 2025

Answered: 28 March 2025

Question

Afzal Khan

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has conducted a risk assessment on the potential impact of (a) future pandemics and (b) geopolitical disruption to the UK's blood stocks; and what contingency plans are in place for thes

Answer

Ashley Dalton

There are four blood services within the United Kingdom, namely the Welsh Blood Service, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, the Northern Ireland Blood Service, and NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT). In England, NHSBT moves blood around the co...

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