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

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

7th December - South East Transfusion Practitioners virtual meeting 

Our next Regional Transfusion Committee meeting will be held on Tuesday 07 November 2023 1pm to 4pm. 

 For more information please contact Janice.robertson@nhsbt.nhs.uk 

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PBM England are delighted to announce that private organisations can now apply to eIntegrity  for paid access to the PBM team’s BTT elearning modules.

Why not view and subscribe to the PBM England YouTube channel. It has many useful educational videos and past presentations. 

The RTC hosted a successful virtual education event on the 3rd of May 2023. PowerPoint presentations and recordings from the Shared Learning from the Amber Alert are now available via our events page.

 Thank you to all our speakers and attendees.

 This valuable package of guidance and template documents has now been updated. This guidance covers clinical governance issues to protect practitioners and patients. The package is now available in our Documents and Resource section

This event is now open for registrations. Transfusion 2024 aims to improve transfusion safety and outcomes for patients though a range of exciting projects.

The North-East and Yorkshire RTC End to End Transfusion IT survey report is now available.

The United Kingdom and Ireland Blood Transfusion Network (UK&IBTN) has developed resources to support patient consent for blood transfusion for both patients and healthcare practitioners, as recommended in guidance published by the advisory committee for the safety of blood, tissues and organ

Welcome back to Charlotte Longhorn, Patient Blood Management practitioner.  

Charlotte returned to the region on 3rd April 2023 after maternity leave.  

“Receiving a Blood Transfusion” patient information leaflet has now been translated in 25 languages. The translations are available to download and print locally

It’s good to celebrate, in a year where we consolidated the hard work achieved in 2021 following our amalgamation.

The RTC hosted a successful virtual education event in February. Presentations from Mums, Babies, and Blood are now available to view. Thank you to all our speakers and attendees. 

Our 2023-24 Regional Activity Plan is now published. This plan details the projects and regional activity over the next tear.

Welcome to new RTC Chair Dr Lynda Menadue who joined us in January and a belated welcome to our new RTC Deputy Chair Dr Suzanne Docherty who joined us in 2022

We hope you enjoy this new regional update & encourage you to get involved by sharing learning and ideas for our next edition. 

Whether it’s transfusion or PBM related, key audit findings, a new project, or success story, get in touch so we can share it with the region.   

The new North East & Yorkshire End-to-End Transfusion IT group has created an electronic regional IT profiling survey to give us an overall picture of the region. This electronic survey closed on 09 February 2023, data from this survey will be used to help facilitate and promote shared learni