The NHS has now begun using plasma from UK donors, following the lifting of restrictions four years ago, it has been announced.
Restrictions were introduced on plasma sourced from the UK in 1998 amid concern about the risk of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. The band was lifted in 2021.
The UK Department of Health and Social Care said 250,000 litres of plasma have been collected in England since 2021. The NHS intends to be 25% self-sufficient in immunoglobin by the end of this year, and 80% self-sufficient in albumin by next year.
The first patient this century to receive UK-sourced plasma was Jill Jones, who receives infusions every three weeks in Oxford for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. About 17,000 NHS patients receive regular infusio...
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