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
27 November 2025
Online Blood Ordering System (OBOS): version 10.2
This version will be released on Sunday 25 January 2026
27 November 2025
Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT)’s November newsletter is now available
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27 November 2025
Reminder of programme extension and change in acceptance criteria
NHS England funded programme for blood group genotyping of Haemoglobinopathy patients
30 October 2025
Management of patients expressing an altered form of the D antigen in combination with the R0 phenotype (D+ C- E-)
advice from Red Cell Immunohaematology (RCI)
30 October 2025
Join the Patient Blood Management (PBM) virtual conference for PBM awareness week
on 4 November 2025 at 10am
30 October 2025
NHS England funded programme for blood group genotyping of Haemoglobinopathy patients
programme extension and change in acceptance criteria
30 October 2025
The joint NHSBT/UKHSA Epidemiology Unit publish their 2024 annual review
'Safe Supplies 2024: Collaborating for safety’
30 October 2025
Blood Transfusion Shared Care Form
updated irradiated / specialist blood components and specialist treatment communications document
30 October 2025
Delayed elfh hub transfer to the Learning Hub
until November 2025
25 September 2025
We are launching a new credit request form and an updated user guide
on 6 October 2025