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
24 June 2021
Accepting substitutions for orders with specific requirements
It is the responsibility of the Lab BMS to agree the substitution
24 June 2021
Please ring your Hospital Services when requesting collect orders within an hour
It is important you do this
24 June 2021
Transfusion Laboratory Managers rate their satisfaction with us
Our customer satisfaction results for October to March 2020 - 2021
27 May 2021
The Distribution Hub for Patient Information Leaflets will not be available from 4 June
You will need to re-register on the new site
27 May 2021
Prioritising testing within RCI
Ensuring we have all the appropriate information to assist in triage and prioritisation of cases
27 May 2021
CPD module in Management of Clinical Services
This module is part of our new MSc in Applied Transfusion and Transplantation Science
27 May 2021
Change to HLA typing reports from 8 June, 5pm
To simplify the display of results
27 May 2021
Vaccine Associated Thrombosis and Thrombocytopenia (VATT) / Vaccine Induced Prothrombotic Immune Thrombocytopenia (VIPIT) reports
The auto-generated comments will be removed from 5pm, 8 June
28 April 2021
Introduction of a platelet-activation assay for the investigation of Heparin-induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT)
From 1 April 2021
28 April 2021
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