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

27 September 2019
Workspace server maintenance 4 October: platelet increment form unavailable
Please contact your platelet desk

09 September 2019
Ministerial decision to accept SaBTO’s recommendations on vCJD risk reduction measures
Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) notifies the ministerial decision.

28 August 2019
New pre-transfusion blood sampling process video
This video highlights the key steps for completing the pre-transfusion blood sampling process

28 August 2019
Please tell us how are we doing
Our next customer satisfaction survey

28 August 2019
H&I patient information leaflets update
Revised leaflets published

28 August 2019
Your feedback please on the new Blood Stocks Management Scheme website
The website has been relaunched on a new content management system

28 August 2019
Implementation Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) typing by Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
Part of H&I's continuous improvement programme

28 August 2019
Please do not store links to documents on this website
Use the website to access documents, not stored links

26 July 2019
Therapeutic Apheresis Services (TAS) user satisfaction survey 2019
Results of a survey issued to 358 clinicians

26 July 2019
Patient NHS numbers required for all H&I and PGI orders
From September 2019