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The Transfusion Transformation Symposium was held on 10th June 2024 to discuss the next 5-year strategy for clinical and laboratory transfusion practice.
The new education resource, Blood Essentials, the replacement for A Drop of Knowledge and A wealth of knowledge is now available on the hospitals and science website.
A Review of the Year 2023 in the South East region
Transfusion 2024 introduces the new Transfusion Training Hub, specifically designed to support education and training for all healthcare professionals working within Blood Transfusion and for anyone wishing to increase their transfusion knowledge.
Our QS138 Quality Insights audit tool has been shortlisted for the HSJ Digital Awards - Driving Change through Data and Analytics category. The award ceremony will be held in June 2024.
A free, ‘one stop shop’ of valuable transfusion resources.
https://nationalbloodtransfusion.co.uk/transfusion-training-hub
South East Regional Transfusion Team meeting - Tuesday 15th May 2024
South East Transfusion Practitioners meeting - Wednesday 12th June 2024
The South East Annual Activity Summary celebrates the achievements and successes, but also reflects on the challenges from the past year - 2023.
The Pathology Portal is a fantastic new educational resource for trainees, practising pathologists, scientists and those in pathology-linked roles.
The East of England RTC Action Plan has been updated for 2024. The plan details the projects and activity planned for the year.
The East of England RTC hosted a very successful virtual education event - Mums, Babies and Blood. Subjects covered throughout the morning included blood groups, massive haemorrhage, fetal DNA, Anti-D, haemolytic disease, anaemia, patient sampling errors and case studies.
The final project report for the use of O D positive red cells in adult males in trauma/major haemorrhage is now available on the Hospitals and Science website. Please click the following link to access:
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
South East RTT Meeting - Virtual via Microsoft Teams - 7 February 2024
South East RTC Education and Business Meeting - 27 February 2024
South East Transfusion Practitioners' Meeting - 14 March 2024
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.