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
25 February 2021
National rollout of e-mail communication for hospital notification of Patient Adverse Events (PAEs) recall closure
From 1 March 2021, following a successful pilot
25 February 2021
Small short journey transport containers for your internal use; sample transfers
A reminder about using our containers
29 January 2021
The rollout of the new style security tag for all transport containers is delayed
Decision made
29 January 2021
The new Blood Assist app: transfusion administration guidance at the bedside
Summarises key guidelines and recommendations from SHOT, BSH and SaBTO
28 January 2021
Online Blood Ordering System (OBOS): version 8.4.2 release on 14 February 2021
This version has no major changes to functionality
28 January 2021
Template SOP for volunteer and non clinical staff providing transfusion support in the Nightingale hospitals
Prepared by the Barts & Royal London Transfusion team in the first lockdown in 2020
28 January 2021
Major Incident Transfusion Co-ordinator Role Action Card
Providing transfusion support in a major incident
28 January 2021
Programme for the National Comparative Audit of Blood Transfusion remains suspended due to COVID-19
An update
28 January 2021
LearnBloodTransfusion updated to remove unsupported Flash content
Official support for Adobe Flash software withdrawn on 31 December 2020
28 January 2021
Revised neonatal and paediatric bookmarks
Revised in line with the BSH Guidelines