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
26 July 2019
Making a complaint, compliment or reporting a pack defect
Updated version of the form - FRM547
26 July 2019
Updated O D Negative red cells guidance published
Please review and accept the guidance into your hospital practice.
27 June 2019
Change to OBOS wording from 'Platelets in PAS' to 'Platelets in PAS (washed)'
From 16 July 2019
27 June 2019
Register for the Blood Stocks Management Scheme Roadshows 2019
Registration is now open
27 June 2019
Washed red cell haematocrit
Our work to reduce the mean haematocrit of washed red cells
27 June 2019
Updated hospital profiles on VANESA, Blood Stocks Management Scheme
Following the BSMS Inventory Practice Survey performed earlier this year
27 June 2019
Bedside check animation now available via e-LfH
A second platform for this video
27 June 2019
Updated RCI User Guide INF66
Details of the changes in version 9
27 June 2019
Guidance for transfusing platelets across blood groups
This has been updated
27 June 2019
Updated Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics Services user guide
This is now available