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
Please tell us if you'd be interested in our Advanced Transfusion Science Masterclass session next Spring
We want to assess interest in this masterclass
Sample sizes for RCI reference testing and 'urgent' requests for testing
RCI labs
20th Anniversary of the Systematic Review Initiative (SRI), 2002 - 2022
Future, present and past
Sending fetal RHD screening samples over the December and January bank holidays
For your action to ensure your samples are processed and not rejected
SHOT module in the new eLearning programme
consisting of three videos
Please start to provide your daily laboratory stock levels for platelets, FFP and cryoprecipitate in VANESA now
in addition to your red blood cells stock levels
Booking is now open for Transfusion Science and Transfusion Medicine courses taking place up to the end of March 2023
NHS discounted and HEE funded places are available
Reducing our ad hoc delivery charge during the amber shortage period
We're refunding 25%
Demand Printed Labels (DPL) for sending samples must be approved by laboratories
Please allow a minimum of one month for approval
Assisting hospitals with inventory management practices during blood shortages
Information from the Blood Stocks Management Scheme team