UK blood donation ban in Ireland to be lifted next month | JOE.ie

The Irish Blood Transfusion Service has announced that the permanent deferral of people who had resided in the UK for a cumulative period of more than one year between 1980 and 1996 will be removed next month.

The ban had been in place over the potential risk of transmission of Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and included residents of Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands. "This resulted in the loss of approximately 10,000 donors and has been a source of annoyance to those donors that they have not been able to donate since that date.""The IBTS has to protect the patient who receives blood and this step was necessary at that time. The evidence now available allows the IBTS to overturn this deferral and reinstate those donors."

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