Since then more than 10 million units of blood have been donated in Wales.

[3] Previously to this, the service covered Mid, South and West Wales, with NHS Blood and Transplant, covering North Wales.

[4] The research and development activity within the Welsh Blood Service Archived 9 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine supports a broad range of healthcare topics.

[5] Its four research themes, Transplantation, Donor Care and Public Health, Products and Therapies reflect the spectrum of this work.

In 2017 the Welsh Blood Service published its Research and Development Strategy, which details its planned expansion of activity into collaborative work and engaging in regenerative and personalised medicine fields.