The Update

News for hospitals and the transfusion community produced by Hospital Customer Services.

Print versions of each month's Update are available in the archive

A new edition of our 'Anaemia' patient information leaflet

is available now

Instructions for Sp-ICE passwords and raising issues

are available in the Sp-ICE user guide

Demand for spray dried plasma (SPD) and spray dried cryoprecipitate (SDC)

Please take part in our survey by Sunday 17 August

New iatrogenic anaemia toolkit

launched 7 July

Access to Blood Transfusion Training (BTT) will be disrupted

during October 2025

Pilot project to use electronic forms for look-back investigations underway

NHSBT/UKHSA Epidemiology and NHSBT Microbiology Clinical teams

Telephone your RCI laboratory if you require crossmatch testing within the out of hours period

It is important you do this

NHS England sickle cell and thalassaemia blood group genotyping test

Results for red cell types are now being issued on Sp-ICE

Register your interest in hosting blood donation sessions

We appreciate your support

Update your LIMS before the end of July 2025

for a new component: apheresis platelets in platelet additive solution (PAS) and plasma

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