Lifeblood employs around 3,700 employees across scientific, clinical and support services, processing over one and a half a million blood donations each year.

[4] People who have engaged in heterosexual or female-to-female sex during the past 12 months are allowed to give blood.

[7][8] The Red Cross, in noting their concern, said they were receptive to a reduction in the current deferral period from 12 to 6 months.

However, the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration rejected their submission, arguing that there would be a greater risk of HIV without a significant increase in blood supply.

[12] In April 2022, the Therapeutic Goods Administration accepted the submission of Lifeblood and the University of New South Wales and removed the rule that made people who had lived in the United Kingdom for more than six months between 1980 and 1996 ineligible.