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State-of-the-art Plasma Machines Improve Donor Experience
Thursday, 1 February 2024, 1:50 pm | New Zealand Blood Service
Plasma donors are starting to benefit from an upgraded donation experience, as New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) rolls out its new Aurora plasma donation machines across Aotearoa. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2402/5836792cb372fd19a4d2.jpeg" ... More >>
New Zealand Blood Service Thanks Donors For A Record-breaking Summer
Tuesday, 23 January 2024, 2:20 pm | New Zealand Blood Service
New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) has reached one of its highest-ever summer collection targets thanks to the continued generosity of New Zealanders. And, with more than 18,000 appointments nationally still to fill throughout the remainder of January ... More >>
New Zealand Blood Service Seeks To Fill 32,000 Appointments Over Summer
Monday, 11 December 2023, 10:47 am | New Zealand Blood Service
New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) has more than 32,000 appointments to be filled between now and the end of January to meet demand over the holiday season. Last year 55,323 units of blood, plasma and platelets were issued to patients across New Zealand ... More >>
More Opportunities To Donate Blood In The Auckland And Northland Regions
Tuesday, 7 November 2023, 3:36 pm | New Zealand Blood Service
New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) has added a second mobile blood drive team to service more communities in the Auckland and Northland regions. It comes as the demand for blood has been increasing by four percent every year and is forecast to keep growing. ... More >>
New Zealand Blood Service Opens Doors To New State-of-the-art Hamilton Donor Centre
Monday, 14 August 2023, 10:55 am | New Zealand Blood Service
Monday 14 August marks the opening of the new Hamilton Blood Donor Centre, now located on the corner of Anglesea and London Street. The state-of-the-art donor centre has been purpose built for New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) by Hamilton-based Stark Property ... More >>
New Zealand Celebrates National Blood Donor Week
Monday, 12 June 2023, 2:27 pm | New Zealand Blood Service
New Zealand Blood Service needs 40,000 more of us to ‘Find our Why?’ New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) is marking the start of the country’s second annual National Blood Donor Week by calling for 40,000 more New Zealanders to ‘Find their Why’ ... More >>
Calling All Queenstown Blood Donors – New Zealand Blood Service Is Heading Your Way!
Wednesday, 1 March 2023, 8:58 pm | New Zealand Blood Service
People in Queenstown Lakes District will have an opportunity to help save up to three lives at the end of this month, with New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) set to host its first mobile blood drive in the district region since 2019. The mobile drive ... More >>
Friendly Fangs: New Zealand Blood Service Vamps Up Otago’s Ori-week
Monday, 13 February 2023, 3:53 pm | New Zealand Blood Service
It’s not just students descending on Otago’s Ori-Week this year. There are rumors of vampire sightings across the campus with reports of mirrors being mysteriously covered and strange nocturnal happenings. However, students and faculty can rest ... More >>
The New Year's Resolution That Saves Lives; New Zealand Blood Service Calls For More Donors For 2023
Wednesday, 11 January 2023, 1:38 pm | New Zealand Blood Service
New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) is asking all eligible Kiwis to make regular blood and plasma donations their New Year’s resolution as it needs more than 40,000 new donors to meet continued rising demand. In 2023, demand for blood and plasma is forecasted ... More >>
The Gift That Keeps On Giving; New Zealand Blood Service Seeks To Fill Holiday Donation Appointments
Thursday, 22 December 2022, 12:01 pm | New Zealand Blood Service
With many Kiwis clocking off for the holiday period between Christmas and the New Year, New Zealand Blood Service is asking donors to make time to donate blood or plasma to help fill the 5000 appointments still available. With donor centres in ... More >>
Celebrations As New Waikato Blood Bank Opens
Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 12:46 pm | New Zealand Blood Service
The new Waikato Blood Bank has this morning been officially blessed and opened on the Waiora Waikato Hospital campus. New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) will lease and operate the purpose-built facility, which was constructed by Te Whatu Ora Health ... More >>
New Zealand Blood Service Calls On Everyday People To Save Lives, Every Day This Summer
Wednesday, 2 November 2022, 2:37 pm | New Zealand Blood Service
This summer, New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) is calling on people to Give blood. Give Plasma. Give Hope. NZBS has over 40,000 lifesaving appointments to fill in the next eight weeks, and it needs ordinary kiwis to give the extraordinary gift of hope ... More >>
Sky Tower Lights Up Gold To Highlight The Skyrocketing Need For Plasma Donors
Monday, 5 September 2022, 10:20 am | New Zealand Blood Service
The Sky Tower, New Zealand’s largest needle, is being lit up gold on Monday September 5 to highlight the sky-high need for plasma and plasma donors. The golden needle marks the start of New Zealand Blood Service’s (NZBS) new campaign dedicated to ... More >>
The Importance Of Māori And Pasifika Blood Donors – Whānau Saving Whānau
Friday, 17 June 2022, 9:14 am | New Zealand Blood Service
This National Blood Donor Week, New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) is highlighting the importance of Māori and Pasifika donors by letting them know just how special their blood is. More >>
New Zealand Blood Service Urgently Calls For More A+ Donors After Major Spike In Demand
Monday, 4 April 2022, 10:40 am | New Zealand Blood Service
New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) needs more A+ Donors to donate after a massive increase in demand, adding further strain to already depleted national stocks struggling in the wake of Omicron. Over the last seven days, demand for A+ has increased 19% ... More >>
New Zealand Blood Services Reduces COVID-19 Deferral Period
Monday, 7 March 2022, 10:34 am | New Zealand Blood Service
New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) has reduced the deferral period for blood and plasma donors who have had COVID-19, are considered a close contact of a confirmed or suspected case or travelled overseas from a COVID-19 risk area. The changes, which have been ... More >>
New Zealand Blood Service Prepares For Impact Of Omicron
Wednesday, 2 March 2022, 11:19 am | New Zealand Blood Service
New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) says it is preparing for the impact of Omicron to be felt in its Donor Centres and Mobile Drives across Aotearoa. The Service is calling on people in good health to book an appointment to donate this month to help ... More >>
Meta Partners With New Zealand Blood Service To Help Boost Blood Donation Rates
Wednesday, 8 December 2021, 7:35 am | New Zealand Blood Service
New Zealand’s Facebook users can now sign up to be notified of opportunities nearby to give blood and plasma, thanks to the launch of Facebook’sBlood Donations feature in partnership with New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS). It comes as NZBS ... More >>
Blood donation still essential during Alert Level 4
Wednesday, 18 August 2021, 10:53 am | New Zealand Blood Service
Blood donation is considered an essential service, donor centres will remain open and New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) is urging all eligible, healthy blood donors to book an appointment, and keep their commitment to donating blood. “The need ... More >>
Blood donation still essential during Alert Level 4
Wednesday, 18 August 2021, 10:52 am | New Zealand Blood Service
Blood donation is considered an essential service, donor centres will remain open and New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) is urging all eligible, healthy blood donors to book an appointment, and keep their commitment to donating blood. “The need ... More >>
