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
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24 June 2021
Reporting of ABO incompatible (ABOi) titre investigations performed by RCI
To change from 20 September 2021
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24 June 2021
Accepting substitutions for orders with specific requirements
It is the responsibility of the Lab BMS to agree the substitution
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24 June 2021
Please ring your Hospital Services when requesting collect orders within an hour
It is important you do this
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24 June 2021
Transfusion Laboratory Managers rate their satisfaction with us
Our customer satisfaction results for October to March 2020 - 2021
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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
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27 May 2021
Prioritising testing within RCI
Ensuring we have all the appropriate information to assist in triage and prioritisation of cases
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27 May 2021
CPD module in Management of Clinical Services
This module is part of our new MSc in Applied Transfusion and Transplantation Science
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27 May 2021
Change to HLA typing reports from 8 June, 5pm
To simplify the display of results
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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
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28 April 2021
Introduction of a platelet-activation assay for the investigation of Heparin-induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT)
From 1 April 2021