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The educational sessions from the Emergency Planning Working Group event held on the 15th May 2024 - Are you Prepared for a Major Incident are now available to view. 

The National Blood Transfusion Committee has produced this template checklist detailing each of the transfusion-related subpoints relevant for hospitals within Recommendation 7 of the IBI Report. https:

Following requests from hospital laboratories and Regional Transfusion Committees (RTC) / Hospital Transfusion Committees (HTC) for support in responding to the transfusion-related recommendations of the Infected Blood Inqui

A free, ‘one stop shop’ of valuable transfusion resources.

 https://nationalbloodtransfusion.co.uk/transfusion-training-hub

The Patient Blood Management quick reference guide to clinical resources supporting the implementation of PBM recommendations has been updated. 

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

The South East RTC hosted a very successful Education Event - Major Haemorrhage and Bleeding.

The Transfusion Transformation Symposium was held on 10th June 2024 to discuss the next 5-year strategy for clinical and laboratory transfusion practice.

See the latest May report for all things PBM.

The new education resource, Blood Essentials, the replacement for A Drop of Knowledge and A wealth of knowledge is now available on the hospitals and science website.

Blood Essentials – Now available!

A Review of the Year 2023 in the South East region

Transfusion 2024 introduces the new Transfusion Training Hub, specifically designed to support education and training for all healthcare professionals working within Blood Transfusion and for anyone wishing to increase their transfusion knowledge.

Our QS138 Quality Insights audit tool has been shortlisted for the HSJ Digital Awards - Driving Change through Data and Analytics category. The award ceremony will be held in June 2024. 

South East Regional Transfusion Team meeting - Tuesday 15th May 2024

South East Transfusion Practitioners meeting - Wednesday 12th June 2024

The South East Annual Activity Summary celebrates the achievements and successes, but also reflects on the challenges from the past year - 2023.

The Pathology Portal is a fantastic new educational resource for trainees, practising pathologists, scientists and those in pathology-linked roles.

The East of England RTC Action Plan has been updated for 2025.  The plan details the projects and activity planned for the year.    

The East of England RTC hosted a very successful virtual education event - Mums, Babies and Blood.  Subjects covered throughout the morning included blood groups, massive haemorrhage, fetal DNA, Anti-D, haemolytic disease, anaemia, patient sampling errors and case studies.

The final project report for the use of O D positive red cells in adult males in trauma/major haemorrhage is now available on the Hospitals and Science website. Please click the following link to access:

Notification of new documents and resources available on the website and upcoming events

The Transfusion 2024 hospital checklist is now available for you to download and amend to reflect the activities pertinent to your site. 

South East RTT Meeting - Virtual via Microsoft Teams - 7 February 2024

South East RTC Education and Business Meeting - 27 February 2024

South East Transfusion Practitioners' Meeting - 14 March 2024

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