Blood needed every eight minutes in Manchester amid NHS urgent call for lifesaving donors as stocks run low

Hospitals in Manchester need one blood donation every eight minutes to meet the demand, according to the NHS. The organisation is emphasising the urgency of this need, particularly for O negative and O positive blood types, which are in high demand and low supply. Additionally, the NHS is calling for more black heritage donors, to provide ethnically matched blood for patients with sickle cell disease.