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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25 February 2021
Updated Anaemia patient information leaflet
The latest version is now available
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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
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25 February 2021
Small short journey transport containers for your internal use; sample transfers
A reminder about using our containers
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29 January 2021
The rollout of the new style security tag for all transport containers is delayed
Decision made
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29 January 2021
The new Blood Assist app: transfusion administration guidance at the bedside
Summarises key guidelines and recommendations from SHOT, BSH and SaBTO
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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
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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
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28 January 2021
Major Incident Transfusion Co-ordinator Role Action Card
Providing transfusion support in a major incident
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28 January 2021
Programme for the National Comparative Audit of Blood Transfusion remains suspended due to COVID-19
An update
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28 January 2021
LearnBloodTransfusion updated to remove unsupported Flash content
Official support for Adobe Flash software withdrawn on 31 December 2020