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Donating blood, or not
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service claim to rather like my blood. However, for all the fuss they make about wanting more of it, I can't help but wonder: if that were true, surely they would make it easier to donate, offer more slots, etc.? When I lived in Scotland, I found it enough of a pain to find any donation sites that offered easy car parking. As I plan to visit soon, and they did SMS me again, I thought I should check what's available in coming weeks.
Their appointment search sucks. It's not the most intuitive and, crucially, I don't think it's helping to find anything at other locations and dates, even though I am flexible about both. In a bit of searching, in Perth I can find only one slot, at a time I can't make. In Dundee I can't find any, even if I try searching at a location where a different part of their website says they are open that day. Unfortunately, I have never seen a no-appointment donation session that did not have an enormous queue, definitely a problem mid-workday. No matter, I figure that if they needed my blood anywhere near as much as they say, they'd have their act together better for letting me donate any.
Their appointment search sucks. It's not the most intuitive and, crucially, I don't think it's helping to find anything at other locations and dates, even though I am flexible about both. In a bit of searching, in Perth I can find only one slot, at a time I can't make. In Dundee I can't find any, even if I try searching at a location where a different part of their website says they are open that day. Unfortunately, I have never seen a no-appointment donation session that did not have an enormous queue, definitely a problem mid-workday. No matter, I figure that if they needed my blood anywhere near as much as they say, they'd have their act together better for letting me donate any.
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We have a very easy to use donor site and we also send texts with locations and times of local drives. It makes it much easier for donors to find a location to donate. Plus we keep opening more smaller sites that are open on weekends and a few days a week for people who live in more rural areas.