On Thursday 11 January, 58 of our S6 pupils volunteered to give blood to help top up the current blood stocks.  At the moment, the current stocks across the west of Scotland is very low for a number of blood types.  Blood demand is unpredictable and there must be a enough blood ready at any one time to help patients in all Scottish hospitals, whenever they need it.  NHS Scotland aims to have six days worth of each blood type available at all times.  As you can see from the diagram above, this is not the case for the majority of blood types.  All pupils involved enjoyed the experience and have vowed to give blood on a regular occurrence.  Well done to all involved.