Latest News from the South West Regional Transfusion Committee

Wednesday, 17th June 2026 (
1 year 10 months ago
)

We have recently held two successful national education events:

Incident Management and Effective Root Cause & CAPA, 12.06.24

Transfusion Still Matters, 02.07.24

Where we have permission, presentations have been uploaded to the Documents and Resources section and the recordings will be uploaded to the PBMEngland YouTube channel.

Other recently added items are the Minutes and Presentations from the SW RTC Meeting held on 22.05.24.  These can be found in the Minutes section.

The next SW RTC Meeting will be held on 20.11.24, 10.30 - 15.30 at Oake Manor, Taunton.  For further information, please contact jackie.mcmahon@nhsbt.nhs.uk

 

 

South West

Other Regions

Updated NICE Guidance on Tranexamic Acid (TXA)

(3 months 2 weeks ago)

NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has today updated its blood transfusion guideline, simplifying when TXA should be offered during surgery - removing the need

Transfusion Bites - Future and Change (Presentations available)

(2 months 4 weeks ago)

The South East Education event: Transfusion Bites - Future and Change took place at the Post Graduate Centre, East Surrey on Friday 27 February 2026.

South East

Survey of Audits and Benchmarking in Transfusion Report

(5 months 3 weeks ago)

Lead: Stuart Lord

National Transfusion Practitioners Network