Latest News from the South West Regional Transfusion Committee

Monday, 2nd March 2026 (
1 year 7 months 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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New SaBTO Consent Guidelines - Updated November 2025

(3 months ago)

New SABTO Consent Guidelines Published

Transfusion Training Survey Results Published

(7 months ago)

The Transfusion Training survey was a collaboration between NHSBT and the Royal College of Pathologist Specialty Advisory Committee, and has now been published in Transfusion Medicine: http://doi.org/10.1111/tme.13146

 

Education

Updated NICE Guidance on Tranexamic Acid (TXA)

(3 days 23 hours ago)

NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has today updated its blood transfusion guideline, simplifying when TXA should be offered during surgery - removing the need