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
18 December 2020
Updated SaBTO recommendations for patient consent for blood transfusion
New guidance is now available
18 December 2020
Updated Patient Blood Management pre-operative anaemia web page
With a wealth of new information
18 December 2020
New style of security tag for all transport containers from 1 February 2021
Providing an enhanced level of security
18 December 2020
A quick reference guide for blood components administration is available
A PBM and NBTC education working group collaboration
18 December 2020
Watch the Transfusion 2024 podcast
Transfusion 2024: a five year plan
18 December 2020
Season’s greetings from the SHOT Team
What we've been up to this year
26 November 2020
Record-breaking number of page views on this website
We're obviously doing something right but we can do more...
26 November 2020
Changes to scientific and clinical training courses
due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
26 November 2020
New versions of safe transfusion videos
are now available
26 November 2020
Receipts of samples will be displayed in Sp-ICE from 30 November
following the latest release of the software