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
SHOT Annual Report 2018
The report is now published
Book to attend the Blood Stocks Management Scheme Sheffield roadshow
Please book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment
Online Blood Ordering System (OBOS): version 8.3.0 release on 27 October 2019 to the live system
Details of updates in this release
Workspace server maintenance 4 October: platelet increment form unavailable
Please contact your platelet desk
Ministerial decision to accept SaBTO’s recommendations on vCJD risk reduction measures
Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) notifies the ministerial decision.
New pre-transfusion blood sampling process video
This video highlights the key steps for completing the pre-transfusion blood sampling process
Please tell us how are we doing
Our next customer satisfaction survey
H&I patient information leaflets update
Revised leaflets published
Your feedback please on the new Blood Stocks Management Scheme website
The website has been relaunched on a new content management system
Implementation Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) typing by Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
Part of H&I's continuous improvement programme