Cord donation

We can currently collect cord blood from five hospitals in the UK, find out more about each of these sites below.

Welcome to the Anthony Nolan Cell Collection Centre, located in Nottingham. We opened in 2025 and are excited to welcome you! You’ll find helpful information on this page to make your visit as smooth as possible.

If you're considering donating your umbilical cord, take a look at our frequently answered questions.

This RBC dose calculator’s aim is to make it easier to establish the RBC ml/kgpbw in a particular CBU for a single UCBT, but also shows the combined RBC ml/kgpbw of different combinations of CBUs which may be used for a double UCBT.

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We take many careful steps to ensure every cord we bank meets the highest standards required for transplantation, and is safe and viable to optimise clinical transplant outcomes.

The Anthony Nolan and NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) Cord Support Programme is a comprehensive suite of free services, designed to make selecting, requesting and handling CBUs as simple as possible.

Anthony Nolan offers an optional Graft Identification Advisory Service (GIAS) for individual UK transplant centres.

If you’ve found out that you need a stem cell transplant, one of the options available for some people is a cord blood transplant. On this page we’ll explain what this means, how it works and why you might need one.