{"id":326288,"date":"2025-12-20T10:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/326288\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T10:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:25:04","slug":"brixton-black-blood-donors-encouraged-through-new-bookings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/326288\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixton: black blood donors encouraged through new bookings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brixton Blood Donor Centre is launching a new service to boost the number of black blood donors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The south London donation centre now allows people to give blood together as part of a group booking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It follows feedback from black heritage groups who said they were more likely to become regular blood donors if they could donate with faith, community or friendship groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mark Chambers, from NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), said: &#8220;The initiative is about creating a shared experience that makes donating more welcoming, inspiring, and impactful &#8211; especially for first-time donors &#8211; in a setting that feels more like community than clinic.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brixton Blood Donor Centre is launching a new service to boost the number of black blood donors. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-326288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}