West Londoners are among some of the least generous in the country at donating blood.

The lowest figure from any postcode area in the country was in northwest London where only one person in 307 has given blood this year, assuming everybody who wanted to donate blood did so.

The NW postcode which has a population of over half a million people, and covers parts of Westminster (in the north) and Brent ; saw donors give blood only 1,799 times so far this year, according to exclusive data supplied to Getwestlondon.

People in the UB postcode in Uxbridge and Southall and the TW postcode in Twickenham are also relatively unlikely to give blood, the data from an FOI request to NHS Blood and Transplant revealed.

The figures for these two postcode areas were one in 109 and one in 71 respectively - making blood donors much rarer than the England average of about one in 43.

However, the W postcode in west London which covers Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster, Ealing, and a section of Hounslow reported 32,529 donations in 2015, or about one person in every 16 in the area went to give blood.

Similarly, people in the HA postcode in Harrow and the WC postcode which covers West Central London showed they were more likely to give blood with one in 41 and one in 36 people heading down to blood banks.

Blood donation in west London

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