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Eligibility Quiz Donating after Travelling Detailed Eligibility Criteria Eligibility Criteria for New Donors Recent Changes to Eligibility Criteria Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) Donor Behavioural Criteria Where to Donate Search for Mobile Drives NORTH ISLAND North Shore Donor Centre Epsom Donor Centre Manukau Donor Centre Hamilton Donor Centre Tauranga Donor Centre Palmerston North Donor Centre Wellington Donor Centre SOUTH ISLAND Christchurch Donor Centre Dunedin Donor Centre Tuam Street Plasma Centre Book an Appointment Whakaorangia Tāngata Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Donors What to Expect When Donating Your Pre-Donation Checklist Your Post-Donation Information Give Blood Give Blood Give Plasma Give Plasma Tissue & Organ Donation Ways to Donate Organs & Tissue Donating Hip Bone Donating Tissue Donating Organs Get Involved Amazing Stories Amazing Stories Publicity Consent Form Team Red Team Red Sign Up A Team Team Red Listings Team Captain's Area Join An Existing Team Red Volunteer Volunteer Register to be a Volunteer Contact Us Login Search WE URGENTLY NEED O- BLOOD. 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Find out more about clinical policies, procedures, reports and other information here. * Transfusion Medicine * Technical Services * Haemovigilance Programme All Clinical Information Give plasma, liquid gold. Did you know that donated plasma can make up to 11 lifesaving products? Find out what makes plasma special and how you can become a plasma hero. Giving Plasma Give blood, save lives. Every time you donate blood you can save up to three lives! Find out what makes blood special and how you can become a donor. Giving Blood AMAZING STORIES OF LIVES CHANGED BY GIVING OR RECEIVING BLOOD See more stories Share your story * WHY WOULDN'T YOU DONATE BLOOD IF YOU CAN? I started donating when my favourite Great Aunt developed a condition which required her to need a lot of donated blood. I felt that as a family, we should do our bit to provide some of that blood, even if it didn't go directly to her. Since then, I have tried to do as much community work as I can while still working part time and raising my family. I have taken my children in so that they can see that donating is easy, free and pain free. I hope they will donate when they are older. My aim has always been to try to help or improve one person's life each and every day. So donating blood helps me to do that too! And quite honestly, if you can donate blood, why wouldn't you?? Read more * JOHN IS NEARING HIS 100TH DONATION I started donating my blood in 1960 when I turned 16 and started working in Wellington, and have been donating ever since. I don't know my total donations as having shifted a few times over the years and hospitals changing and updating their systems my total donation records have been lost. But I can tell you that I am fast approaching my 100th donation using the current system. I am looking forward to getting a Certificate from New Zealand Blood Service. Read more * DARREN'S DONOR STORY Darren has completed 215 Plasma donations, he is one of our frequent plasma donors in Palmerston North. This weekend (29th Nov 2019) he is taking part in the BDO Lake Taupo challenge. This year is a bit different, along with 45 fellow cyclists, they will complete this challenge for HeartKids NZ. They've already raised over $12,000, which is an amazing effort! Read more * A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE Aged just 15 months, Mike Carnahan was admitted to Nelson Hospital after a fall. “…fell on his face and had bleeding from the upper lip for several days. Bleeding continued and a transfusion was carried out with success on 10 April 1947 because of severe anaemia.” In the late 1940s, haemophilia was a very rare condition affecting just 1:5000 male births and predicting a life expectancy of barely 21 years. Life was usually cut short as a consequence of a prolonged internal bleeding episode. Being so young however, Mike was referred to specialists in Wellington who diagnosed him with haemophilia. This was the era of no blood service but to this day, Mike recalls the blood transfusion process. “I was set up with a 13 gauge needle inserted through a cut down along with a ligature to tie the vein off on completion. My father in the adjacent room was bled into a jug which was then simply poured through a glass funnel into a glass reservoir bottle, through somewhat thick rubber tubing and then into the vein.” Mike told us that his father William made it a condition of appointment for his apprentices to be blood donors and received tremendous support from the community when blood was needed. Mike continued to receive whole blood treatment throughout the 1950s until he was finally diagnosed with factor IX deficiency in 1957. Fresh frozen plasma appeared in 1963 and the first of the fractionated blood products in 1975. Despite all of this progress, in the early 1980s, it was discovered that HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) were being transmitted in fractionated blood products and many haemophiliacs were infected. This tragedy dramatically hastened the appearance of safer products, recombinants in 1993 and prophylaxis in 1998.After 71 years of reliance on blood products, Mike has now moved from plasma-derived fractionated factor IX to recombinant products but remains forever grateful to the voluntary donors and organisations that have provided such wonderful service. His great nephew also has severe haemophilia and has been on prophylaxis from birth. Now aged 14 he has had only one joint bleed, never missed a day of school and is able to participate in surfing and other sports. Mike’s incredible story illustrates the progress made in just one clinical speciality over his lifetime. Read more * FARAHAD'S A REGULAR BLOOD DONOR A couple of years ago one day I was cycling past Knox Presbyterian Church 574 High St, Lower Hutt, 5010. I saw a sign there for a Blood Donation drive. I didn't know then that one had to book an appointment to donate blood. Anyway time was made for me and I donated blood. Ever since that day I have become a regular blood donor having donated 9 times and will continue to do so as long as I can. I hope the above experience will serve as an example for the team at the NZ Blood Service. Difficult as it may be by arranging to take my blood that very day I have become a committed donor. Keep up the good work. Read more * WHY WOULDN'T YOU DONATE BLOOD IF YOU CAN? I started donating when my favourite Great Aunt developed a condition which required her to need a lot of donated blood. I felt that as a family, we should do our bit to provide some of that blood, even if it didn't go directly to her. Since then, I have tried to do as much community work as I can while still working part time and raising my family. I have taken my children in so that they can see that donating is easy, free and pain free. I hope they will donate when they are older. My aim has always been to try to help or improve one person's life each and every day. So donating blood helps me to do that too! And quite honestly, if you can donate blood, why wouldn't you?? Read more * JOHN IS NEARING HIS 100TH DONATION I started donating my blood in 1960 when I turned 16 and started working in Wellington, and have been donating ever since. I don't know my total donations as having shifted a few times over the years and hospitals changing and updating their systems my total donation records have been lost. But I can tell you that I am fast approaching my 100th donation using the current system. I am looking forward to getting a Certificate from New Zealand Blood Service. Read more * DARREN'S DONOR STORY Darren has completed 215 Plasma donations, he is one of our frequent plasma donors in Palmerston North. This weekend (29th Nov 2019) he is taking part in the BDO Lake Taupo challenge. This year is a bit different, along with 45 fellow cyclists, they will complete this challenge for HeartKids NZ. They've already raised over $12,000, which is an amazing effort! Read more * A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE Aged just 15 months, Mike Carnahan was admitted to Nelson Hospital after a fall. “…fell on his face and had bleeding from the upper lip for several days. Bleeding continued and a transfusion was carried out with success on 10 April 1947 because of severe anaemia.” In the late 1940s, haemophilia was a very rare condition affecting just 1:5000 male births and predicting a life expectancy of barely 21 years. Life was usually cut short as a consequence of a prolonged internal bleeding episode. Being so young however, Mike was referred to specialists in Wellington who diagnosed him with haemophilia. This was the era of no blood service but to this day, Mike recalls the blood transfusion process. “I was set up with a 13 gauge needle inserted through a cut down along with a ligature to tie the vein off on completion. My father in the adjacent room was bled into a jug which was then simply poured through a glass funnel into a glass reservoir bottle, through somewhat thick rubber tubing and then into the vein.” Mike told us that his father William made it a condition of appointment for his apprentices to be blood donors and received tremendous support from the community when blood was needed. Mike continued to receive whole blood treatment throughout the 1950s until he was finally diagnosed with factor IX deficiency in 1957. Fresh frozen plasma appeared in 1963 and the first of the fractionated blood products in 1975. Despite all of this progress, in the early 1980s, it was discovered that HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) were being transmitted in fractionated blood products and many haemophiliacs were infected. This tragedy dramatically hastened the appearance of safer products, recombinants in 1993 and prophylaxis in 1998.After 71 years of reliance on blood products, Mike has now moved from plasma-derived fractionated factor IX to recombinant products but remains forever grateful to the voluntary donors and organisations that have provided such wonderful service. His great nephew also has severe haemophilia and has been on prophylaxis from birth. Now aged 14 he has had only one joint bleed, never missed a day of school and is able to participate in surfing and other sports. Mike’s incredible story illustrates the progress made in just one clinical speciality over his lifetime. Read more * FARAHAD'S A REGULAR BLOOD DONOR A couple of years ago one day I was cycling past Knox Presbyterian Church 574 High St, Lower Hutt, 5010. I saw a sign there for a Blood Donation drive. I didn't know then that one had to book an appointment to donate blood. Anyway time was made for me and I donated blood. Ever since that day I have become a regular blood donor having donated 9 times and will continue to do so as long as I can. I hope the above experience will serve as an example for the team at the NZ Blood Service. Difficult as it may be by arranging to take my blood that very day I have become a committed donor. Keep up the good work. Read more * WHY WOULDN'T YOU DONATE BLOOD IF YOU CAN? I started donating when my favourite Great Aunt developed a condition which required her to need a lot of donated blood. I felt that as a family, we should do our bit to provide some of that blood, even if it didn't go directly to her. Since then, I have tried to do as much community work as I can while still working part time and raising my family. I have taken my children in so that they can see that donating is easy, free and pain free. I hope they will donate when they are older. My aim has always been to try to help or improve one person's life each and every day. So donating blood helps me to do that too! And quite honestly, if you can donate blood, why wouldn't you?? Read more LATEST NEWS * 13 March 2023 BLOOD AND ORGAN DONORS GIVE JACK HOPE New Zealand Navy fitness instructor Jack required a heart transplant after being diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, a disease of the… Learn more * 24 February 2023 ORGAN DONATION NEW ZEALAND AND KIDNEY HEALTH ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION This month sees Organ Donation New Zealand, together with Kidney Health, encourage people to have a conversation about organ donation;… Learn more * 24 February 2023 BLOOD DONORS SAVED MARYSE'S LIFE TWICE Maryse faced not one but two unseen emergencies within a year. Learn more * 13 March 2023 BLOOD AND ORGAN DONORS GIVE JACK HOPE New Zealand Navy fitness instructor Jack required a heart transplant after being diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, a disease of the… Learn more * 24 February 2023 ORGAN DONATION NEW ZEALAND AND KIDNEY HEALTH ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION This month sees Organ Donation New Zealand, together with Kidney Health, encourage people to have a conversation about organ donation;… Learn more * 24 February 2023 BLOOD DONORS SAVED MARYSE'S LIFE TWICE Maryse faced not one but two unseen emergencies within a year. Learn more * 13 March 2023 BLOOD AND ORGAN DONORS GIVE JACK HOPE New Zealand Navy fitness instructor Jack required a heart transplant after being diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, a disease of the… Learn more * 24 February 2023 ORGAN DONATION NEW ZEALAND AND KIDNEY HEALTH ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION This month sees Organ Donation New Zealand, together with Kidney Health, encourage people to have a conversation about organ donation;… Learn more * 24 February 2023 BLOOD DONORS SAVED MARYSE'S LIFE TWICE Maryse faced not one but two unseen emergencies within a year. Learn more See all news Book to Donate Book to Donate BOOK NOW TO DONATE or contact us online or call us on 0800 448 325 Start booking ARE YOU ELIGIBLE? Before you can book an appointment, you need to check to see if are eligible to donate. Take the eligibility quiz MY DONOR PORTAL Have you already created a donor profile on our website or on our NZBS app? Log in here to manage your donations. 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