Hi, in France, there's a questionnaire to fill in beforehand (each time), and this question is included. So, French (or any) people are also refused if they had spent a year in the UK during the relevant years...

It's the same here in Spain.

I have a sort of "off topic" question about the title of this thread, just to satisfy my own curiosity.

I have heard of a blood donor, and donating blood, I dont think I have ever heard "blood doning".

Is that the more usual way of referring to the act, and would doning be used when giving/donating other things besides blood, or only in that context.

Thanks and cheers.

JL

I don't think it a correct word.

There certainly is no verb "To done".

I thought it might be an Americanism but it isn't in Websters.

It's just bad, sloppy English.

Donors donate donations - that's it

Thanks Fred,

Sometimes I get confused,but to me the word doning sounds like the way a Spanish person would guess when trying to convert a Spanish word to English, donando to doning, if you see what I mean.

And an English speaker would possibly make the word "donatando" if trying to guess the Spanish word without knowing it,and sometimes folks get stuck somewhere in the middle and come up with Espanglish words.

I think I put a Spanglish word in one of my posts a while back, and it was pointed out to me, if I remember rightly.

Odd one. You're a donor if you donate. I don't understand why it's not donator but it's definitely not doning.

'Donating blood' is the usual way of putting it - or 'making a blood donation'

Why do they not have a section in the clinics/hospitals for blood taken from brits to use when needed for Brits. only????? Seemples!!!

There's a letter in the most recent Costa del Sol News which seems to indicate that the rules might have been relaxed. This lady moved to Spain just 4 years ago I think and was allowed to donate. Does anyone have any concrete info on what might have been changed? I have to rely on my not so frequent visits to the UK to give blood at the moment.

I am not aware that the rules have changed - possibly they have.

It is far more likely that in this particular case they just didn't bother to check the rules.