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

 

28 January 2022

Sp-ICE Notification

Scottish Blood Transfusion Service and Welsh Blood Transfusion Service

28 January 2022

Accepting applications – MSc Applied Transfusion and Transplantation Science and CPD module

To start in September 2022

28 January 2022

Book now for Transfusion Science courses

Spaces are available

28 October 2019

Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) plasma announcement on the treatment of patients with TTP

Advice for our clinical colleagues following this announcement

03 May 2019

National Blood Transfusion Committee (NBTC) updated Platelet Shortage Plan

The platelet shortage plan operates similarly to the red cell shortage plan with three phases dependent on NHSBT stock levels - Green, Amber and Red

30 April 2019

NHSBT partners with Sheffield teaching hospitals to expand stem cell and bone marrow collection centre services for donors from DKMS (Delete Blood Cancer) from 1 April 2019

Providing services for DKMS will establish NHSBT as the only NHS provider to all three stem cell and bone marrow registries operating in England.

26 March 2019

Invitation for TLMs to participate in the NCA's re-audit of the medical use of blood

The project group welcome your input.

26 March 2019

Final issue of Blood and Transplant Matters publication, March 2019

The publication has been a regular newsletter for hospitals.

26 March 2019

Changes to HLA selected platelets out of hours service from 13 May 2019

Following consultation a reduced service has been agreed.

26 March 2019

Please complete our Blood Stocks Management Scheme Inventory Practice Survey asap

To ensure that you can appropriately benchmark yourselves.