Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 17 September 2018.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to maximise stem cell donor registration.
The Department has provided more than £26 million to NHS Blood and Transplant and Anthony Nolan for stem cell donation since 2011. This funding has supported a number of improvements including: the establishment of a unified stem cell registry called the ‘Anthony Nolan and the NHS Stem Cell Registry’, the identification and recruitment of donors including from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, and the expansion of cord blood banks.
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