HC Deb 20 December 1968 vol 775 cc519-20W
Mr. Lubbock

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what was the quantity of blood thrown away by the National Blood Transfusion Service as being time expired in the latest year for which figures are available; and if he will direct the Service to make inquiries to ascertain whether there is a market for this blood.

Mr. Ennals

Blood is not thrown away by the National Blood Transfusion Service as being time-expired. Blood returned by hospitals to transfusion centres (193,380 bottles in 1967) is converted, if in satisfactory condition, to plasma and other blood products.