{"id":89152,"date":"2026-05-14T07:41:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89152"},"modified":"2026-05-14T07:41:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:41:22","slug":"rise-in-sickle-cell-disease-prompts-nhs-call-for-more-black-blood-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/14\/rise-in-sickle-cell-disease-prompts-nhs-call-for-more-black-blood-donors\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise in sickle cell disease prompts NHS call for more Black blood donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA238Kht.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Jourdan Dunn gives blood in Brixton, south London. The model\u2019s son, Riley, is a sickle cell patient who relies on transfusions. Photograph: Ian West\/PA\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Demand for blood needed to treat rare disorders such as sickle cell has soared by more than 130% in 10 years, forcing the NHS to ask for more donors to come forward. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/rise-in-sickle-cell-disease-prompts-nhs-call-for-more-black-blood-donors\/ar-AA238Uwi?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=6a057ad2a3e74446833ca8d87bbf89e0&amp;ei=45\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Demand for blood needed to treat rare disorders such as sickle cell has soared by more than 130% in 10 years, forcing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sickle-cell"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/sickle-cell.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89153,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89152\/revisions\/89153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}