The Update
News for hospitals and the transfusion community produced by Commercial and Customer Services.
Print versions of each month's Update are available in the archive
Change to OBOS wording from 'Platelets in PAS' to 'Platelets in PAS (washed)'
From 16 July 2019
Register for the Blood Stocks Management Scheme Roadshows 2019
Registration is now open
Washed red cell haematocrit
Our work to reduce the mean haematocrit of washed red cells
Updated hospital profiles on VANESA, Blood Stocks Management Scheme
Following the BSMS Inventory Practice Survey performed earlier this year
Bedside check animation now available via e-LfH
A second platform for this video
Updated RCI User Guide INF66
Details of the changes in version 9
Guidance for transfusing platelets across blood groups
This has been updated
Updated Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics Services user guide
This is now available
Washed red cell haematocrit
Washed Red Cell component currently has a higher mean haematocrit (0.68) than standard Red Cells in Additive (0.58)
Online Blood Ordering System (OBOS): version 8.2.3 release on 10 June 2019
Details of updates in this release