National Blood Service

I got a letter in the post this morning from the NBS thanking me for giving blood, which was nice to read. It says that my rhesus positive blood group is very useful and can be given to 83% of the population, which is nice to hear before breakfast and a drink of tea.

Anyway I am talking about this because it is a very important issue and not enough people give blood to meet the current demand, only 5-6% of people of people who could blood actually do, which is very sad as there are so many people out there who need it and this means that the NBS relies on mostly the same people to give blood regularly to help the thousands of people every day during planned surgery like hip replacements, in emergencies, to fight diseases such as cancer.

So if you are reading this and have been thinking about doing it, I recommend that you just go for it. I was a little nervous about doing it at first, but it was easy and not as scary as I thought it may be.

You would be doing something amazing.

Visit www.blood.co.uk

Information was taking from a NBS leafet.