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 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Official support for Adobe Flash software withdrawn on 31 December 2020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
28 January 2021
Cancelled face to face practical training / Under the Microscope: Practical Introduction to Transfusion Science course
Changes following the announcement of the latest national lockdown
28 January 2021
Transfusion aide memoire: essentials for bedside transfusions for health care professionals
From the NBTC Emergency Planning Working Group, SHOT and RCPath
19 January 2021
Instructions for referring suspected COVID-19 samples to RCI for testing
A reminder of the instructions sent to hospitals in April 2020
22 December 2020
Handling of Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP) and Cryoprecipitate
Due to an increase in damaged FFP and Cryoprecipitate, please handle with care.
21 December 2020
Under the Microscope: Specialist Transfusion Science Practitioner course
This course has been redesigned