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
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.
23 January 2019
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