Blood donation: NHS issues urgent appeal amid “unprecedentedly low” stocks

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) has issued an amber alert asking hospitals to restrict the use of O type blood to essential cases and to use substitutions where clinically safe to do so, after stocks of blood dropped to “unprecedentedly low levels.”

NHSBT has also made an urgent public appeal for more blood donors, particularly those who are O negative or O positive. Its latest figures showed that …