The NHS has celebrated its first year of creating life-saving medicines with plasma taken from UK donors.
The donation process — a lot like donating blood — is simple, safe, and can be done by most healthy adults.
However, the use of domestic plasma donations in medicines was prohibited for over two decades, with the ban only being lifted last year.
To discover why, and learn more about the future of plasma donation, listen to this report from Twickenham Donor Centre — one of only three dedicated centres for plasma donations across England.
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