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- 2024 National Comparative Audit of Bedside Transfusion Practice (Re-audit)
- 2023 National Comparative Audit of NICE Quality Standard QS138
- 2022 Audit of Blood Sample Collection & Labelling
- 2021 Survey of Patient Blood Management
- 2021 National Comparative Audit of NICE Quality Standard QS138
- 2019 Re-audit of the medical use of red blood cells
- 2018 Audit of the Management of Maternal Anaemia and Iron Deficiency in United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland
- 2018 Audit of the use of FFP and cryoprecipitate in neonates and children
- 2018 Audit of the management of major haemorrhage
- 2018 Survey of Group O D Negative Red Cell Use
- Transfusion associated circulatory overload audit 2017
- Red cell & platelet transfusion in adult haematology patients 2017
- Red cell & platelet transfusion in adult haematology patient 2016
- Red blood cell transfusion in hospices 2016
- Patient Blood Management in adults undergoing elective, scheduled surgery 2016
- Lower gastrointestinal bleeding audit
- 2015 Patient Blood Management in adults undergoing elective, scheduled surgery
- Transfusion in children and adults with Sickle Cell disease 2014
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- O D negative K positive and K negative red cells; when is it safe to transfuse?
- Emergency preparedness, resilience and response guidance for hospital transfusion teams
- Registration for the SHOT Symposium 2019 is open
- Importing low-risk vCJD plasma from Poland
- Low demand patient information leaflets
- Please work with your RCI lab to manage your referrals
- Updated H&I user guide
- Online Blood Ordering System (OBOS): version 8.2.3 release on 10 June 2019
- Updated information for Molecular Diagnostics published on the IBGRL website
- Washed red cell haematocrit
- Updated Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics Services user guide
- Guidance for transfusing platelets across blood groups
- Updated RCI User Guide INF66 version 9
- Bedside check animation now available via e-LfH
- Updated hospital profiles on VANESA, Blood Stocks Management Scheme
- Washed red cell haematocrit June 2019
- Register for the Blood Stocks Management Scheme Roadshows 2019
- Change to OBOS wording from 'Platelets in PAS' to 'Platelets in PAS (washed)'
- Updated O D Negative red cells guidance published
- Making a complaint, compliment or reporting a pack defect
- Patient NHS numbers required for all H&I and PGI orders
- Therapeutic Apheresis Services (TAS) user satisfaction survey 2019
- Implementation Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) typing by Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
- Please tell us how are we doing
- New pre-transfusion blood sampling process video
- H&I patient information leaflets update
- Your feedback please on the new Blood Stocks Management Scheme website
- Please do not store links to documents on this website
- Ministerial decision to accept SaBTO’s recommendations on vCJD risk reduction measures
- Workspace server maintenance 4 October: platelet increment form unavailable
- Online Blood Ordering System (OBOS): version 8.3.0 release on 27 October 2019 to the live system
- Book to attend the Blood Stocks Management Scheme Sheffield roadshow
- SHOT Annual Report 2018
- Please order our Consent for transfusion sticker pad while we have stock
- Please give us your feedback on the IBGRL website
- Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) plasma announcement on the treatment of patients with TTP
- Helping you to validate our transport boxes on receipt of your component orders
- The HEV tick box will be disabled from OBOS by 8 December 2019
- Specialist stock orders in OBOS are not being completed due to a technical issue
- Please load the new neonatal platelet component specifications onto your LIMS
- Thank you to our customers for reading our Update
- Update on outstanding National Comparative Audit reports
- Red Cell Immunohaematology accreditation status available on the Hospitals and Science website
- The HEV tick box will be disabled on OBOS by 27 January 2020
- Patient information leaflet availability: Anti-D prophylaxis guidance
- Telephony upgrade taking place on 29 January and 5 February
- Please help us to ensure we have Ro blood for people with sickle cell disease
- Our preparations for UK plasma self-sufficiency
- National Transfusion Laboratory Managers Working Group survey on fax machines
- Use of fax machines in NHSBT
- Placing orders on the OBOS TRAINING site from 16 March
- Change to order notes in OBOS to support our First In - First Out (FIFO) policy; Maximum age
- Please update your LIMS with the Barnsley site codes before 1 June
- Customer satisfaction survey 2019 / 2020: results from the first survey, and the second survey
- Emergency preparedness, resilience and response guidance for hospital transfusion teams (1)
- Improved despatch note to confirm the cold chain, in use from 30 March
- Update on our preparations for UK plasma self-sufficiency
- Please destroy copies of the 'Will my child need a plasma transfusion?' patient information leaflet
- Referring urgent samples to RCI where you require results in less than 5 working days
- 9 April update - ABOi titre investigations are NOT changing from 4 May 2020
- Do you want to take our blood centre tour?
- Progress of National Comparative Audit audit reports
- Updated Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics user guide with information for sending samples
- Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT)
- New online application form to request use of demand printed labels for specialist service referred samples
- Routine deliveries and sample collection
- Please tell us of your planned patient activity to help us maintain blood supply
- New maternal anaemia e-learning resource
- Therapeutic Apheresis Services Annual Review 2019 / 20
- Please distribute our convalescent plasma donation card
- Different packs for convalescent plasma and fresh frozen plasma
- COVID-19: Your recovery and restoration plans
- We’ll be asking you to complete our next customer satisfaction survey in September 2020
- Please update your LIMs in preparation for UK sourced FFP and cryoprecipitate components for neonates and infants
- Please update your LIMs for FFP units converted from plasmapheresis donations
- Improved despatch note to confirm the cold chain, will be implemented 30 June
- Please inform your IT department: Sp-ICE only works using Internet Explorer
- Updated NBTC platelet shortage plan June 2020
- Revised apheresis platelets myth buster poster
- New COVID-19 convalescent plasma therapy patient information leaflet
- 2019 Annual SHOT report
- Changes for requesting credits for blood components from 3 August
- Please update your LIMs in preparation for UK sourced FFP and cryoprecipitate components for neonates and infants (1)
- Block contracting arrangements to continue
- Updated H&I guidance for sample labelling and completing a request form
- Validating a plasmapheresis machine to support our convalescent plasma programme
- TLMs – please complete our next customer satisfaction survey
- Improved availability of pooled group O+ granulocytes from 14 September (1)
- Guidance on the non-agitation of platelets
- COVID-19 convalescent plasma should only be given to clinical trial patients
- The Patient Blood Management (PBM) toolkit is now available
- Building our COVID-19 convalescent plasma stocks
- We are no longer producing anti-D education resources
- Preliminary findings of a survey of blood component use in COVID-19 patients
- Changes to platelets in platelet additive solution, washed
- Revised NBTC Indication Codes for Transfusion are now available
- New information to support the NBTC red cell and platelet shortage plans
- Guidance now available for the Appropriate Specification of Emergency Red Cells
- Please update your LIMS with the Barnsley centre codes before 6 November
- New H&I laboratories test request form and user guide available from 15 November
- Record-breaking number of page views on this website
- Receipts of samples will be displayed in Sp-ICE from 30 November
- New versions of safe transfusion videos
- Changes to scientific and clinical training courses
- Season’s greetings from the SHOT Team
- Watch the Transfusion 2024 podcast
- A quick reference guide for blood components administration is available
- New style of security tag for all transport containers from 1 February 2021
- Updated Patient Blood Management pre-operative anaemia web page
- Updated SaBTO recommendations for patient consent for blood transfusion
- New MSc in Applied Transfusion and Transplantation Science, September 2021
- Customer satisfaction survey 2020 - 2021 results from the first survey
- Under the Microscope: Specialist Transfusion Science Practitioner course
- Handling of Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP) and Cryoprecipitate
- Transfusion aide memoire: essentials for bedside transfusions for health care professionals
- Cancelled: Face to face practical training / Under the Microscope: Practical Introduction to Transfusion Science course
- Revised neonatal and paediatric bookmarks
- LearnBloodTransfusion updated to remove unsupported Flash content
- The new Blood Assist app: transfusion administration guidance at the bedside
- Programme for the National Comparative Audit of Blood Transfusion remains suspended due to COVID-19
- Action card for Major incident Transfusion Co-ordinator role
- Template SOP for volunteer and non clinical staff providing transfusion support in the Nightingale hospitals
- Instructions for referring suspected COVID-19 samples to RCI for testing
- Online Blood Ordering System (OBOS): version 8.4.2 release on 14 February 2021
- The rollout of the new style security tag for all transport containers is delayed
- Small short journey transport containers for your internal use; sample transfers
- Emails to replace Patient Adverse Events (PAEs) recall closure letters
- Updated anaemia patient information leaflet
- Please telephone Hospital Services after requesting an emergency delivery
- 2021 SHOT Symposium July 14 - 15; Haemolytic Transfusion Reactions webinar 12 March
- Ordering antigen negative red cell units
- Non medical authorisation of blood components course dates
- Face-to-face practical training sessions for scientific and clinical courses
- RCI will be implementing some changes in reports
- Do not use sticky labels or write on our Phase Change Materials or transport boxes
- Please return your recall paperwork to us promptly
- Sending platelet and blood packs to MSL Bacteriology for investigation
- Please review platelet ordering, stockholding practice and question historical use
- Blood centre tour video
- Launch of new Anaemia eLearning package
- Do we have your up to date contact details?
- New dates for Transfusion Science training; new training laboratory at Barnsley Blood Centre
- Ministers to lift the ban on UK plasma for fractionation
- Therapeutic Apheresis Services (TAS) patient feedback
- Introduction of a platelet-activation assay for the investigation of Heparin-induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT)
- SHOT - sign up to receive our new monthly newsletter Snap SHOT
- Revised FFP & cryo factsheets in line with 2020 Indication Codes
- Book to attend an Advanced Transfusion Masterclass virtual session
- Latest version of our form to request credits is available
- Prioritising testing within RCI
- CPD module in Management of Clinical Services
- Vaccine Associated Thrombosis and Thrombocytopenia (VATT) / Vaccine Induced Prothrombotic Immune Thrombocytopenia (VIPIT) reports
- Change to HLA typing reports from 8 June, 5pm
- The Distribution Hub for Patient Information Leaflets will not be available 4 - 21 June
- Transfusion Laboratory Managers rate their satisfaction with us
- Please ring your Hospital Services when requesting collect orders within an hour
- Accepting substitutions for orders with specific requirements
- Reporting of ABO incompatible (ABOi) titre investigations performed by RCI
- Advanced Transfusion Masterclass virtual session
- We're launching a new website for booking onto our training courses
- Please do not pack transport boxes with more than 4 Phase Change Materials (PCM)
- New UK wide patient information leaflet - 'Receiving a Blood Transfusion'
- We are withdrawing the learnPro platform, to access learnbloodtransfusion (LBT)
- Full Rh phenotypes are not required on all red cell units
- Emergency deliveries can be delivered by our drivers or couriers
- Blood Assist App announced a finalist in the HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2021
- Therapeutic Apheresis Services Annual Review 2020 / 21
- A new process for reporting leaking red cells and platelet packs to us
- Platelets may be issued from an alternative apheresis platelet set undergoing validation
- Innovate UK funded SAMPLE (Standard Approach to atMP tissue colLEction) programme
- eLearning programme to support advanced therapy training in the NHS, UK universities and government bodies
- SHOT update
- Guidance on the indications for Cytomegalovirus (CMV) negative granulocytes
- Accessing Sp-ICE
- Sp-ICE downtime 2 September
- O D negative red cells for emergency stock to be issued with a minimum of 21 days remaining shelf life.
- Launch of the new MSc in Applied Transfusion and Transplantation Science
- Blood Stocks Management Scheme's Platelet Inventory Practice Survey
- Do you need small short journey containers?
- Quality issues with Donation Identification Number (DIN) barcode labels
- TLMs – please complete our customer satisfaction survey by 10 October 2021
- Audit of reversal of anticoagulation (warfarin/DOACs) in trauma patients 2022
- Advanced Transfusion Masterclass part 2 'More Rhesults and Rheckoning', 24 November
- Sp-ICE will not be available 9am to 1pm, 23 November
- New videos for setting up and performing a Manual Red Cell Exchange in Sickle Cell Disease
- Updated Blood Components app
- repeated - Audit of reversal of anticoagulation (warfarin/DOACs) in trauma patients 2022
- Shortlisted for International Learning Award - Practical Introduction to Transfusion Science (PITS) course
- Please update your operational documentation following changes to the validated journey times for short journey transport containers
- Please contact our National Frozen Blood Bank (NFBB) to discuss returning unused “ultra rare” red cell units
- Please complete outstanding SHOT reports
- The LUST (Laboratory Urine Sickle Test) Project
- Please contact Hospital Services after amending or cancelling an order in OBOS for non-stock, specialist components or Ro units
- Annual SHOT Symposium 2022 'Transfusion Safety: Past, Present and Future'
- Updated H&I laboratories test request forms
- Book now for Transfusion Science courses
- Accepting applications for MSc Applied Transfusion and Transplantation Science and CPD module
- Sp-ICE Notification
- SHOT Silver Jubilee
- Updated definitions of SHOT reporting categories
- Revised H&I test request forms now available to download or order
- Transfusion Science and Medicine Training update
- Access to learnbloodtransfusion (LBT) elearning data
- Accessing the publication Blood and Transplant Matters
- Fetal RHD screening - change to primary tube testing
- Reminder: Access to learnbloodtransfusion (LBT) elearning data
- Blood stocks: inventory management
- RCI will be ending concession to accept expired tubes from 6 June 2022
- NHSBT’s pricing and service proposals
- New ‘Crossmatch Report’ from 24 May 2022
- Use a second RCI request form to support verbal requests for additional crossmatches
- Interested in the MSc in Applied Transfusion and Transplantation?
- Clinical and scientific course dates for June 2022 - book now
- We have now updated our hospital component recall documents
- RCI management of Intra-uterine Transfusions (IUT) and neonatal transfusions
- New Anaemia eLearning modules
- H&I - cancelling HLA platelet standing orders
- Latest version of the OBOS user guide now available
- International Haemovigilance Network - SHOT Symposium 6 - 8 July 2022
- Revised ‘Iron in your diet’ patient information leaflet
- Clinical and scientific course dates
- Register now for the International Haemovigilance Network - SHOT Symposium 6 - 8 July 2022
- Updated framework for Non-medical authorisation of blood components
- Transport boxes - maximum number of Phase Change Materials (PCM) and surplus
- 2022 National Comparative Audit of Blood Sample Collection and Labelling
- Updated IBGRL Molecular Diagnostics user guide and referral form
- Use Group A high titre (HT) negative plasma components for patients of unknown blood group
- Book now for Transfusion Science and Transfusion Medicine courses
- Referring, labelling and sending samples to RCI
- Virtual Advanced Transfusion Masterclass 11 October 2022
- Sp-ICE downtime 30 August between 3pm and 3.45pm
- NBTC plasma shortage plan and EBMA checklist
- NHSBT drivers and FedEx couriers - receiving the same great service
- Please do not use adhesive labels on our Phase Change Materials (PCMs)
- Online Blood Ordering System (OBOS): version 8.5.5 release on 25 September 2022
- EDTA tube size for fetal RHD screening
- Please ensure staff are aware the preparation time for washed platelets will be 8.5 hours
- Statement on HRM Queen Elizabeth II
- Please start to provide your daily laboratory stock levels for platelets, FFP and cryoprecipitate in VANESA now
- Booking is now open for Transfusion Science and Transfusion Medicine courses taking place up to the end of March 2023
- Reducing our ad hoc delivery charge during the amber shortage period
- Demand Printed Labels (DPL) for sending samples must be approved by laboratories
- Assisting hospitals with inventory management practices during blood shortages
- New Blood Transfusion Training (BTT) elearning programme
- SHOT module in the new eLearning programme
- Sending fetal RHD screening samples over the December and January bank holidays
- Sample sizes for RCI reference testing and 'urgent' requests for testing
- Are you interested in an Advanced Transfusion Science Masterclass in Spring 2023?
- Discounted rates and fully funded places available for Transfusion Science and Transfusion Medicine training
- RCI Genotyping for Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibody Patients
- SHOT wins at the HSJ Patient Safety Awards: Human Factors category
- Updated Component Portfolio
- 20th Anniversary of the Systematic Review Initiative (SRI), 2002-2022
- New Assistant Director of RCI
- Blood Transfusion Training eLearning Programme
- Please avoid blanket requesting of K- for stock orders of all ABO groups
- Annual SHOT symposium 2023
- Molecular Diagnostics - rejected samples
- Customer satisfaction survey result Autumn 2022
- We are no longer carrying out non-invasive pre-natal testing (NIPT) for fetal sex determination
- MSc Applied Transfusion and Transplantation Science webinar for prospective students
- Additional Practical Introduction to Transfusion Science (PITS) course to meet demand
- Sp-ICE will not be available 9 February after 10:10 am
- Processing and transport times for non-stock, special components including urgent requests
- Please update your LIMS with platelet component barcodes
- Additional test implemented for Hepatitis B to identify donors with past Hep B
- New haemochromatosis and blood donation leaflet for donors
- Revised sickle cell disease patient information leaflet
- Virtual Advanced Transfusion Masterclass, Haemoglobinopathies and Transfusion Support
- Sending fetal RHD screening samples over the April bank holiday
- Transfusion laboratory managers - have you completed your BSMS Inventory Practice Survey for frozen components?
- You must telephone your RCI laboratory to request urgent testing
- 2023 National Comparative Audit of NICE Quality Standard 138
- New audit tool launched: QS138 Quality Insights
- Supporting hospitals using 5 day contingency platelets
- Invitation to TLMs to complete our new online hospital satisfaction survey by 6 April 2023
- We're looking to develop and improve our Blood Stocks monthly component report
- UK Forum For Haemoglobin Disorders 55th Academic Meeting
- Transfusing a granulocyte after the unit has expired
- Register for the Annual SHOT Symposium 2023 now
- PSIRF impact on haemovigilance and investigation of transfusion incidents in England, UK
- New Consent for Transfusion resources available
- First NHS hospital goes live with electronic requesting and reporting
- New versions of the Blood Assist and Blood Components apps
- National Blood Transfusion Committee (NBTC) website launch
- Updated NBTC blood shortage plans
- Online Blood Ordering System (OBOS): version 9.0.3 release on 21 May 2023 to the live and training system
- Transfusion 2024 virtual event 19 June 2023
- Introducing selective screening for Hepatitis B anti-core (anti-HBc) to reduce the risk of occult hepatitis B
- Blood Stocks Management Scheme Inventory Practice Survey on frozen components
- The OBOS training website requires a fix to a 'bug'
- Please update your email address in OBOS and SpICE if it changes
- Please order Lua negative red cells only when there is a clinical need
- If you receive components you did not order please advise your Hospital Services department
- SHOT Annual Report 2022
- Paid access to Blood Transfusion Training (BTT) elearning for private organisations
- Transfusion Lab Managers - please take part in our audit to ensure we continue to supply to your need
- New blood pack validations starting mid-August 2023
- Our new and extended Virtual Blood Centre Tour is now available
- Anti-HBc testing
- Please complete our next customer satisfaction survey
- Updated instructions for returning blood units with suspected bacterial contamination
- Non Medical Authorisation of Blood Components (NMA) course dates for 2024/2025
- Preparations for blood group genotyping for people with sickle cell, thalassemia and rare anaemia
- Book to attend the Virtual Advanced Transfusion Masterclass on pan-reactive case studies, 2 November 2023
- The Blood Stocks Management Scheme (BSMS) portal updated on 5 September
- Accessing OBOS
- Introducing laser printed despatch notes from November 2023
- Latest versions of user guides for Fetal RHD screening and for referring other samples to Molecular Diagnostics
- Latest versions of H&I laboratory test request forms available from 31 October
- Management of the Molecular Diagnostics laboratory moves to the Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (H&I) function
- We want lab staff to help us to identify and address knowledge gaps in education and training
- Blood Pack Changes
- Sending fetal RHD screening samples over the December and January bank holidays (1)
- Error within Essential Transfusion Practice elearning module
- Thank you and reminder
- New transfusion education resource
- Blood Stocks Management Scheme (BSMS) Newsletter
- Patient Information Leaflets
- Including High-titre (HT) status in Electronic Despatch Note (EDN)
- Molecular Diagnostics laboratory UKAS move completed
- New look for SHOT reporting pages
- Annual SHOT Symposium 2024
- Red cell age requirement removed for Haemoglobinopathy patients
- Phase Change Material (PCMs)
- Group AB Fresh Frozen Plasma
- National Blood Transfusion Committee (NBTC) updated Platelet Shortage Plan
- NHSBT partners with Sheffield teaching hospitals to expand stem cell and bone marrow collection centre
- Invitation for TLMs to participate in the NCA's re-audit of the medical use of blood
- Please complete our Blood Stocks Management Scheme Inventory Practice Survey asap
- Final issue of Blood and Transplant Matters publication, March 2019
- Changes to HLA selected platelets out of hours service from 13 May 2019
- SHOT Definitions Updated
- Sending fetal RHD screening samples
- Transfusion Science Course
- Transfusion eLearning: UK and Ireland collaboration
- Patient consent
- Virtual Reality training
- Component irradiation
- NHSBT transfusion courses
- QS138 Quality Insights
- National Haemoglobinopathy Registry
- RCI Analysers
- New Transfusion Training Hub
- Register to attend the SHOT Symposium 2024
- SHOT resources to support the TACO National Patient Safety Alert issued by MHRA
- Do you use your personal email address for OBOS?
- RCI reports will be available from Sp-ICE only, from 1 April 2025
- New Fresenius Kabi T2110 pack for pooled granulocytes from June 2024
- Please use our new Blood Stocks Management Scheme (BSMS) data interpretation guide
- Book for the Blood Stocks Management education day, 3 dates remain for 2024
- New transfusion resource "Blood Essentials"
- Our supplier of irradiation indicator labels will change from RadTag to rad-sure
- The solution to ensure correct levels of Factor XI (FXI) in Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP)
- Contingency telephone and fax numbers for Hospital Services
- Different pack type for Pooled Platelets
- New SHOT blood donation Myth Busters poster for World Blood Donor Day
- Transfusion-Transmitted Infections (TTI) Cumulative Data web page
- Scientific and Clinical Training and Education
- RCI reports will be available from Sp-ICE from 1 April 2025
- Removal of ABO result H&I reports
- Reminder that consent is required for blood group genotyping of Haemoglobinopathy patients
- RCI turnaround times
- Divestment of Polyagglutination Test for T Activation
- Patient Information Leaflets' accessibility
- July update on RCI reports will only be available on Sp-ICE, from 1 April 2025
- Phase Change Materials (PCMs)
- The supplier of irradiation indicator labels is changing from RadTag to rad-sure
- Book to attend Transfusion Science courses
- High-titre (HT) status in the Electronic Despatch Note (EDN)
- The Autumn 2024 Hospitals' Customer Satisfaction survey launches mid September
- A new Patient Information Leaflet: Anti-D immunoglobulin during pregnancy
- Please help our courier drivers to collect your empty NHSBT transport containers
- Therapeutic Apheresis Services (TAS) 2024 User Satisfaction Survey
- Non Medical Authorisation of Blood Components (NMA) course
- Book now to attend the Advanced Transfusion Masterclass
- Samples for genotyping of haemoglobinopathy patients
- NBTC Transfusion Laboratory Managers' Advisory Group and NHSBT Audit
- Updated NBTC transfusion indication codes
- Updated NBTC Red Cell Shortage Plan now available
- COVID-19 updates
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