Full Report: Drive to sign up 100,000 new blood donors
More young people are being encouraged to give blood across the region by the NHS Blood and Transplant service,
The campaign includes a week of recruitment events across the region and follows the national drive to sign up 100,000 new blood donors in a hundred days.
Watch the full report from Claire Wilson below.
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