Latest News from the South West Regional Transfusion Committee

Saturday, 19th July 2025 (
11 months 2 weeks 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

Midlands Military and Emergency Blood Education Event - postponed

(9 months ago)

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. 

Midlands

Sharing Best Practices

(8 months 3 weeks ago)

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.

North West

The Transfusion Training Hub celebrates its 1st birthday!

(3 months 1 week ago)

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.