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£600,000 To Tackle Critical Shortage Of Donors Amongst BME Communitites

1st November 202029th October 2020 Josie McFarlane 207 Views 0 Comments BAME, Blood, BME, communities, crisis, Death, donate, health, NHS, organ, Shortage Of Donors

New funding has just been announced as part of the Government’s commitment to tackle health inequalities. The funding aims to

Black History Month – The struggle to find a lifesaving stem cell donor

15th October 202015th October 2020 Josie McFarlane 284 Views 0 Comments Belief, BHM, black community, Black History Month, Blood, Donor, Faith, health, help, Save Lives, stem cell

Every 20 minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with blood cancer and the register of stem cell donors –

Are Christians Forbidden to Eat Blood?

31st July 202028th July 2020 Josie McFarlane 507 Views 1 Comment Blood, Christianity, Church news, Faith, God, The Bible

“Would you like your steak well done, medium, or rare?” For many, a rare steak is a favorite dish, reserved

Coronavirus Lifestyle News

500 Members of One Church Donate Blood Plasma for Coronavirus Research

16th July 202016th July 2020 Josie McFarlane 344 Views 0 Comments Blood, church, community, Coronavirus, Cure, donation, God, health, Pandemic, The Bible

500 members of Shincheonji Daegu Church, a branch church of South Korea-based Shincheonji Church of Jesus, are donating blood plasma

Funding boost will help organisations promote organ donation in the black community

22nd December 201920th December 2019 Josie McFarlane 918 Views 0 Comments BAME, black community, Blood, funding, Funding boost, health, NHS, organ donation, organisations

Thirteen organisations working within black communities are joining the campaign to address the urgent need for more lifesaving organ donors

Black community has highest ratio of patients waiting for a transplant to organ donors

23rd October 201922nd October 2019 Josie McFarlane 821 Views 0 Comments black community, Blood, BME, Donor, health, NHS nurses, organ, transplant

For every black deceased donor last year, there were 31 black patients in need of an organ. The ratio of

Health Lifestyle

Severing the ignorance of sickle cell disease by Kehinde Salami

1st June 201925th May 2019 Becky Wybrow 1671 Views 0 Comments awareness, Blood, health, Kehinde Salami, Sickle cell, sickle cell disease

Suggestion: Severing the ignorance of sickle cell disease Sickle Cell Disease If I were to ask the wider population for

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Funding boost will help organisations promote organ donation in the Christian community

30th January 20194th February 2019 Josie McFarlane 2074 Views 0 Comments black, Blood, christian, Christian community, community, Donor, Faith, Funding boost, NHS, organ

Two organisations working within the Christian community are joining the campaign to address the urgent need for black, Asian and

Educate children to tackle ethnic minority donor crisis, MPs say

13th August 201813th August 2018 Josie McFarlane 1134 Views 0 Comments Anthony Nolan, Anthony Nolan Charity, Asian, awareness, BAME, BAME communities, black, Blood, blood donation, boost donor numbers, Carl Anka, communities, Death, donation, donation crises, Eleanor Smith, england, ethnic background, ethnic diversity, ethnic minority donors, ethnic minority groups, government, illness, individuals, Jackie Doyle-Price, Labour MPs, minority ethnic, misinformation spreading, mistrust, myth-busting, national curriculum, national priority, NHS bodies, organ donation, organ failure, organs, paying it forward, public awareness, silent crisis, Social Media, Stem cells, UK population

School pupils should learn about organ and blood donation to help tackle the “silent crisis” of a lack of ethnic