Gold award to Quantify Principal Consultant for 50 blood donations

To recognise his 50th blood donation on 13 September, David Lusty, Principal Consultant with survey research specialists Quantify, has been awarded the National Blood Service Gold award.

In June this year, David was asked to volunteer for a special programme of platelet donations and, after checking his platelet level, the Platelet Donor unit at Tooting enrolled him as a platelet donor. David sees this as being part of his organisation’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy.

“Quantify, conducts Employee Satisfaction Surveys, 360° Feedback and Customer Satisfaction Surveys - all designed to provide organisations with information about how people feel,” David explained. “So my participation as a blood donor is an appropriate feature of Quantify’s CSR policy.

“My 50th donation has come up much sooner than I had expected.” said David, who had given more than 40 ‘ordinary’ blood donations over the years before becoming a platelet donor.

“But, as a platelet donor, I can now donate once a month, instead of only three times a year - and I hadn’t realised that each platelet donation is counted as two donations. It’s only fair, I suppose, because donating platelets takes up to 90 minutes, instead of the ten minute limit for a ‘normal’ blood donation.”

Platelets are essential to stop bleeding and bruising.

They are tiny fragments of cells made in the bone marrow and released into the blood stream in the same way as red blood cells. If a blood vessel is damaged, platelets will become 'glued' together at the site of the damage to form a platelet plug.

Most platelet donations are given to patients who are unable to make enough platelets in their bone marrow – such as patients with leukaemia or other cancers may have too few platelets as the result of their disease or its treatment.

The platelet donation process separates the platelets from the blood and returns the rest to the donor, allowing more frequent visits.

You can enrol as a blood donor by walking into any blood donor session, or by calling the National Blood Service on 0845 7 711 711. Their web site is at http://www.blood.co.uk
Details of platelet donation are available at: http://www.blood.co.uk/pages/platelets.html

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Notes for Editors

There is a picture available on request, of David Lusty, Principal Consultant with survey research specialists Quantify, having blood samples taken to assess his suitability as a blood platelet donor. To request this picture, contact Bob Little Press & PR (tel 01727 860405).

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Further information from:

David Lusty, Quantify! Ltd: 00 44 (0)20 8704 1296/ 07956 518070
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR: 00 44 (0)1727 860405 / 07850 508209