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Turn Up The Music, Roll Up Your Sleeve - New Zealand Blood Service Drop The Beats For Donation
Friday, 13 June 2025, 1:33 pm | New Zealand Blood Service
Timed to roughly last the length of time spent in the chair for either a whole blood or plasma donation, the playlists have been crafted by familiar names such as Tiki Taane, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Shapeshifter, Erin Simpson and SYSCA’s Lucy Blakiston, ... More >>
Driving Change: Meet The Women Keeping Hamilton Moving
Thursday, 12 June 2025, 2:40 pm | Kinetic New Zealand
Designed specifically to support and empower women entering the bus driving profession, Women Up Front is not only helping to future-proof the workforce — it's also driving greater diversity, inclusion, and resilience across the transport sector. More >>
New Zealand Blood Service Needs New Blood - Call Out To Gen Z To Activate Their Superpower And Start Saving Lives
Monday, 9 June 2025, 12:11 pm | New Zealand Blood Service
New Zealand currently has just over 130,000 blood and plasma donors – less than 4% of the eligible population. More >>
New Zealand Blood Service And Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust Celebrate A Decade Of Lifesaving Impact
Tuesday, 15 April 2025, 2:13 pm | New Zealand Blood Service
A decade on, the partnership has made it possible for over 200 patients to receive around 315 units of blood in time critical pre-hospital transfusions. More >>
Give The Gift Of Life This Summer: NZ Blood Service Has More Than 24,000 Appointments To Meet Busy Holiday Demand
Monday, 18 November 2024, 12:19 pm | New Zealand Blood Service
For anyone interested in becoming a donor, download the NZ Blood Service Donor App or visit the NZBS website to check your eligibility, find your nearest location to donate and book an appointment. More >>
National Blood Donor Week - New Zealand Short Of Plasma Collection Targets By 12% Weekly
Monday, 12 August 2024, 10:06 am | New Zealand Blood Service
New Zealand’s plasma supply is at a tipping point, as demand for this ‘liquid gold’ in our blood continues to increase by over 10% year on year. This National Blood Donor Week, New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) is calling for New Zealander’s ... More >>
New Zealand Celebrates World Blood Donor Day Friday June 14 ‘Your Aroha Is Life Changing’
Thursday, 13 June 2024, 2:50 pm | New Zealand Blood Service
Every year across Aotearoa 30,000 Kiwis have their lives saved or improved thanks to the generosity of New Zealand’s donor community. More >>
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 >>
Network Communication Starts The Year In Growth Mode
Friday, 12 January 2024, 11:46 am | Network Communication
Network Communication, one of New Zealand’s most established independent PR agencies, is kicking off the year with two new hires. First in already for 2024 is Nik Hancock. With a background in law and business, and more than three years’ PR experience, ... 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 >>
