If your spleen was removed due to trauma or physical injury, you can donate six months after you’ve made a full recovery.

We’re glad you’re doing better now. Unfortunately, though, to protect your health you’re unable to donate blood.

Maybe, it depends on the type of surgery and the recovery period.

So long as your tattoo was done on licensed or regulated premises in Australia (like a commercial tattoo parlour or a cosmetic clinic) and is healing well, you can book in to donate plasma.   

The minimum age for blood donation is 18 years.

Once you turn 18 you can give blood as often as every 12 weeks or you can donate plasma or platelets as often as every two weeks.

If your medication was prescribed by a doctor registered in Australia, you can donate.

Yes, but there’s a restriction based on sexual activity. Donors who are transgender will be unable to donate if they’ve had sex with a male or transgender partner in the last 12 months.

In most cases, yes. However you may have to wait a while – from 4 weeks to 4 months – before you can donate.

Depending on when you lived in the UK, you may be able to donate. See variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)

Yes, but when you can give blood depends on the type of hepatitis vaccination you've had.

Hepatitis B vaccine