Latest News from the South West Regional Transfusion Committee

Wednesday, 2nd September 2026 (
2 years 1 month 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

 

 

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National Transfusion Practitioners Network