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<p>Since 2011 the Department has provided more than £26 million in financial support
to NHS Blood and Transplant and Anthony Nolan to enable the establishment of a unified
United Kingdom Stem Cell Registry and improve stem cell donation. This includes improving
equity of access to unrelated donor stem cell transplantation for Black African Minority
Ethnic (BAME) patients through targeted recruitment to the UK Stem Cell Registry and
the Department has set specific targets about the proportion of donors that must be
from BAME backgrounds.</p>
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