After more than 25 years, plasma medicines made from UK donors are being used to treat patients again.

This is a brilliant step forward for people living with rare diseases, immune deficiencies, and critical conditions.

From today (6th March 2025), many patients who rely on immunoglobulin will access UK-sourced treatments.

Supplies of albumin medicine will also be used in trauma, childbirth, and liver treatment.

Since the government gave the go-ahead for plasma medicine to be made from UK donors again in 2021, the NHS has established a new medicine supply chain, taking donations through to manufacture and infusion in hospitals.

But the need for plasma medicine is growing fast, estimated at about 7% every year.

You can help the NHS make more vital medicine by becoming a blood or plasma donor today – www.blood.co.uk/plasma/

 

Published 6th March 2025