Blood: Donors
(asked on 7th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people donated blood in each of the last three years.
This question was answered on 14th November 2022
The following table shows the number of active blood donors in England from 1 November to 31 October in each year from 2019.
Year | Number of donors |
1 November 2019 to 31 October 2020 | 764,966 |
1 November 2020 to 31 October 2021 | 789,943 |
1 November 2021 to 31 October 2022 | 797,263 |
Source: NHS Blood and Transplant, November 2022.
Note:
An active donor is an individual who has donated blood at least once in a 12 month period.