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Developing and Elevating the TP Role: From Reflection to Action

We celebrated the first birthday of the Transfusion Training Hub in April 2025. Created to be a “one stop shop” for transfusion education resources, it is now the most popular feature on the NBTC website with over 32,000 visits during its first year, will yours be the next? 

The 2025 Undergraduate Medical Degree Transfusion Medicine Survey was developed in collaboration with the T2024 Education Working Group, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) Patient Blood Management Consultants, and the UK and Ireland Blood Transfusion Network (UK&I BTN).

The 2025 Undergraduate Medical Degree Transfusion Medicine Survey was developed in collaboration with the T2024 Education Working Group, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) Patient Blood Management Consultants, and the UK and Ireland Blood Transfusion Network (UK&I BTN).

Since the Transfusion Training Hub was launched in April 2024, there have been over 32,000 visits to the site, mainly from the UK, however it has also reached many other countries such as the US, India, Greece and the Netherlands.

A review of the year 2024 in the South East - reflecting the successes, achievements and challenges.

As part of the Transfusion 2024 strategic plan, a referral support tool, RCI Assist, has been developed. This is now available to use via Sp-ICE and will be available via OBOS in June 2025.

A review of the year 2024 in the South East Region

Transfusion Practitioners – Virtual Workshops Start in Less Than 2 Weeks!

Our first virtual workshop, "Developing and Elevating the TP Role: From Reflection to Action," is fast approaching!

The 2025 Undergraduate Medical Degree Transfusion Medicine Survey was developed in collaboration with the T2024 Education Working Group, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) Patient Blood Management Consultants, and the UK and Ireland Blood Transfusion Network (UK&I BTN).

The project had a target of 30 hospitals live with Fetal RhD electronic requesting and reporting by the end of the 2024/25 financial year. 

We are pleased to announce that we now have 35 sites live, 27 on Winpath Enterprise LIMS and 8 on EPIC EPR.

Catch up with the latest Patient Blood Management (PBM) update. 

For all other things PBM please see following link https://hospital.blood.co.uk/patient-services/patient-blood-management

Please come along to one of the training sessions for RCI Assist – a referral support tool designed to guide hospital transfusion laboratory staff to either refer a sample to RCI or process the sample in-house.

 The training session will cover:

A series of RCI Awareness sessions were held throughout January 2025. Thank you to all who attended and provided feedback. A link to one of the recordings is available to watch here.

A review of the activity that has taken place during 2024 for the East of England Region.  

A brief summary of Transfusion 2024 activity and an introduction to the Transfusion Transformation strategy for the next 5 years Recommendations | National Blood Transfusion Committee

The NBTC Education Working Group will put forward topics each year for the Regional Transfusion Committees (RTC) rolling programme of national virtual education sessions.

The development of a Transfusion Practitioner Framework is well under way.

A lot of work has been going on since Nov 2023.

Perioperative implications of Sickle Cell Disease in neurosurgery and the use of automated red cell exchange as a tool to facilitate time sensitive surgery.  Won poster prize at BBTS Annual Symposium 2023.

When Haemoglobinopathy Meets Neurosurgery: Learning points for the clinical team.

Please note that this event on the 4th November 2024 has been postponed and will be rescheduled in the future. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. 

The PBM team are delighted to share that the QS138 Quality Insights team have been awarded the 2024 Bill Chaffe Unsung Hero Award by the British Blood Transfusion Society.

An abstract submitted to SHOT outlining the development of the Transfusion Training Hub was awarded first place at this years SHOT symposium.  

An abstract submitted to SHOT outlining the development of the Transfusion Training Hub was awarded first place! 2nd place was also awarded to the T2024 team for the ongoing development of Fetal RHD screens e-requesting and reporting. 

Jennifer Rock, alongside Wendy McSporran (Advanced Transfusion Practitioner) delivered a presentation at the BBTS conference 'A Transfusion Practitioner Professional Development Framework, how will it benefit transfusion practitioners today and in the future.' Presenting on behalf of the transfus