TAS units
Therapeutic Apheresis Services are delivered across England and North Wales by eight units. Each unit has a consultant and lead nurse who manage a clinical team.
How to make a referral
Please phone 0300 020 0496 and select the option (for example, press 2 for Bristol, 3 for London) to be directed to the unit you wish to make the referral to.
Birmingham
COVID-19: Birmingham unit relocation from 21 July 2020
For patients/ visitors to the Therapeutic Apheresis Services (TAS) unit in Birmingham, please attend the Sickle Cell and Thalassemia Centre at City Hospital on the first floor (D19) as usual and staff will direct you to the TAS Unit from there.
- Automated Red Cell Exchange
Please email referrals to NHSBT.TASBirmingham@nhs.net
Bristol
COVID-19: Bristol unit relocation from 9 April 2020
Please note our unit address has temporarily changed to:
Level 5 Outpatients (location code D502) Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre, Horfield Road, Bristol BS2 8ED.
Please advise patients to use the main entrance to the Haematology and Oncology Centre as usual to attend appointments but to take the lift to Level 5. Please assume we are on level 5 until this website is otherwise updated.
Tel: 0117 342 1092 or 0117 342 1093
In the event that the above phone numbers do not work, please phone the Lead Nurse for Bristol, Alka Chauhan, directly: 07515761133
TAS Lead Consultant - Dr James Griffin BSc (Hons), MBChB (Hons), PHD, MRCP (UK), FRCPath
Clinical Director - Stem Cells, Therapeutic Apheresis and Tissue Services
Consultant in Haematology NHS Blood & Transplant and University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
TAS Lead Nurse - Alka Chauhan
Services provided
- Therapeutic Plasma Exchange
- Red Cell Exchange
- Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Collection
- Platelet Depletion
- White Cell Depletion
- Low Density Lipid Removal
- Extracorporeal Photopheresis
Please email referrals to NHSBT.TAS.Bristol@nhs.net
Leeds
Floor 3 Bexley Wing
St James University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
Tel: 0113 206 8131
TAS Lead Consultant - Dr Marina Karakantza MBBS, MD
Consultant in Haematology NHS Blood & Transplant
TAS Lead Nurse - Bridget Hughes
Services provided
- Therapeutic Plasma Exchange
- Red Cell Exchange
- Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Collection
- Platelet Depletion
- White Cell Depletion
- Low Density Lipid Removal
Please email referrals to NHSBT.TAS.Leeds@nhs.net
Liverpool
Ward 7X
Room 6
Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Prescot Street
Liverpool
L7 8XP
Tel: 0151 709 2559
If you would like to make or discuss a patient referral please telephone 0151 268 7013
TAS Lead Consultant - Dr Therese Callaghan BSc, MB,ChB, FRCPSG, FRCPath
Consultant Haematologist NHS Blood & Transplant and Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
Honorary Consultant Haematologist The Christie NHS Trust and Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Services provided
- Therapeutic Plasma Exchange
- Red Cell Exchange
- Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Collection
- Platelet Depletion
- White Cell Depletion
- Extracorporeal Photopheresis
Please email referrals to NHSBT.TAS.Liverpool@NHS.net
London
Lion Ward
6th Floor VCB Building
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street
London
WC1N 3JH
Directions
Tel: 020 7405 9200 extension 1334
TAS Lead Consultant - Dr Helen New
TAS Lead Nurse - Nancy O’Brien
Services provided
- Therapeutic Plasma Exchange
- Red Cell Exchange
- Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Collection
- Platelet Depletion
- White Cell Depletion
Please email all referrals to NHSBT.TAS.London@nhs.net
Manchester
NHSBT Photopheresis Unit
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Wilmslow Road
Withington
Manchester
M20 4BX
Tel: 0161 434 8424
If you would like to make or discuss a patient referral please telephone 0151 268 7013
TAS Lead Consultant - Dr Therese Callaghan BSc, MB,ChB, FRCPSG, FRCPath
Consultant Haematologist NHS Blood & Transplant and Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Honorary Consultant Haematologist The Christie NHS Trust and Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
TAS Lead Nurse - Amanda Calderwood
Services provided
- Extracorporeal Photopheresis
- Therapeutic Plasma Exchange
- Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Collection
- Red Cell exchange
- Leucopheresis
Please email referrals to NHSBT.TAS.Manchester@nhs.net
Oxford
NHS Blood and Transplant
John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford
OX3 9BQ
Tel: 01865 387938
TAS Lead Consultant - Dr Rachel Pawson
TAS Lead Nurse - Dee Rawlings
Services provided
- Therapeutic Plasma Exchange
- Red Cell Exchange
- Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Collection
- Extracorporeal Photopheresis
- Platelet Depletion
- White Cell Depletion
Please email referrals to NHSBT.stsnursesoxford@nhs.net
Sheffield
Therapeutic Apheresis Unit
Room O12
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Glossop Road
Sheffield
S10 2JF
Tel: 0114 226 1378
TAS Lead Consultant - Dr Khaled El-Ghariani MA, FRCP, FRCPath
Consultant in Haematology and Transfusion Medicine and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, NHS Blood & Transplant, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Sheffield
Services provided
- Therapeutic Plasma Exchange
- Red Cell Exchange
- Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Collection
- Platelet Depletion
- White Cell Depletion
Please email referrals to NHSBT.TAS.Sheffield@nhs.net
