On the last day in Parliament in the House of Lords on the 30th July an issue was presented about “NHS Blood and Transplant Service: Blood Stocks – Question“.

Gillian Merron the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care addressed those that spoke and one of the comments included:

I thank my noble friend. That is a very important point and I will consider it in our deliberations. It is worth saying on resilience that work was already in place—for example, new centres are planned to be opened in Brixton and Brighton. I make that point not just because of expanding capacity but because the location of them will widen the range of donors. We absolutely need to continue. That is why I have asked the chief executive and the chair to come back to me with their plans to make us even more resilient.