A campaigner says current rules on blood donations from gay men are "irrelevant".

Currently men who have had sex with other men cannot give blood for three months. Ian Boulton, chair of the South Gloucestershire LGBT+ Equality Network, says the rule is wrong when male blood is desperately needed.

The NHS said it was looking into ways of allowing more people to donate. A blanket ban on donations from sexually active gay men was introduced in 1985. The rules were relaxed in 2011 to allow donations after 12 months of sexual abstinence. In 2017 the abstinence period was shortened to three months but Mr Boulton, who used to donate regularly, says that still prevents vital donations.

"When you hear they're putting out a call to arms for people to give blood, particularly men, and you know that a significant minority of the population are excluded, I just think it's a wasted resource," he said. Read more via BBC