More than 137000 NHS blood donation appointments cancelled in the last year due to NHS staff shortages

More than 137000 NHS blood donation appointments cancelled in the last year due to NHS staff shortages More than 130,000 blood donation appointments have been cancelled in the past 12 months due to NHS staff shortages, new figures reveal, prompting claims by Labour that government “incompetence” has left patients “paying the price”.

The disclosure comes just two weeks after the health service issued its first-ever amber alert as blood stocks ran dangerously low, with just two days’ worth of supply left for some blood types. The Independent