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SW RTC Educational Webinar "Transfusion in GI bleeding and chronic liver disease".

( 1 month 2 weeks ago )
 Transfusion in GI Bleeding and Chronic Liver Disease – 24 June 2026
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Transfusion Training Survey Results Published

( 1 year 1 month 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 
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The Transfusion Training Hub Celebrates Its 1st Birthday!

( 1 year 4 months ago )
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? 
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2025 Undergraduate Medical Degree Transfusion Medicine Survey

( 1 year 4 months ago )
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).
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RTC Rolling Education Programme

( 1 year 9 months ago )
The NBTC Education Working Group will put forward topics each year for the Regional Transfusion Committees (RTC) rolling programme of national virtual education sessions.
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Pathology Portal Launch

( 2 years 5 months ago )
The Pathology Portal is a fantastic new educational resource for trainees, practising pathologists, scientists and those in pathology-linked roles.
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NBTC25: 25 years of the National Blood Transfusion Committee

(2 months ago)

Celebrating NBTC25

New SHOT & MHRA Haemovigilance Training Workshops May 2026 - Manchester & London

(6 months 3 weeks ago)

SHOT & MHRA Haemovigilance Workshops – May 2026

SHOT, in collaboration with the MHRA haemovigilance team, is hosting two free, interactive, in‑person haemovigilance workshops this May.

FAQs for Hospitals - Blood requirements for solid organ transplant donors who will undergo Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP) prior to transplantation

(1 month 3 weeks ago)

NBTC and NHSBT have collaborated to create an FAQ document for Transfusion Laboratory colleagues about the blood requirements for solid organ transplant donors who will undergo Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP) prior to transplantation.