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 complete our Blood Stocks Management Scheme Inventory Practice Survey asap
To ensure that you can appropriately benchmark yourselves.
O D negative K positive and K negative red cells; when is it safe to transfuse?
We need to ensure that O D negative K negative red cells are available for those patients that need this phenotype.
Please work with your RCI lab to manage your referrals
Our on call service is available outside core hours to investigate those samples that require results and/or crossmatched red cells that are clinically urgent and cannot wait until the next working day.
Importing low-risk vCJD risk plasma from Poland
To ensure sufficiency of supply of MB FFP and MB Cryoprecipitate, we have secured an agreement to import low-risk vCJD plasma from Poland.
Low demand patient information leaflets
Once current stocks of these are depleted, some will no longer be available to order as hard copies, however they are available for you to download.
Registration for the SHOT Symposium 2019 is open
This will take place at Rothamsted Centre for Research and Enterprise, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ on 9 July.
Emergency preparedness, resilience and response guidance for hospital transfusion teams
Approved in January 2019 by the National Blood Transfusion Committee (NBTC).
Updated H&I user guide is now published
The guide (INF136) has been revised and is now version 5.
Your requests for credit: please submit on a regular basis
From 22 March this year, requests submitted more than 3 months after the product expiry date will not be accepted.
Transfusion Practitioners - please feedback on a new 'Consent for blood transfusion' sticker pad resource
You should have received a sticker pad in the post. To help us to estimate the demand for the pad, we would appreciate your help with completing a brief survey.