Blood Transfusion
Recommendations related to blood transfusion
Tag overview
recommendation across 2 inquiries
Across 2 inquiries
Tagged Recommendations
Transfusion Committees and Tranexamic Acid - England
In England, Hospital Transfusion Committees and transfusion practitioners take steps to ensure that consideration of tranexamic acid be on every hospital surgical checklist; that hospital medical directors be required to …
Tranexamic Acid - Scotland, Wales and NI
In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland offering the use of tranexamic acid should be considered a treatment of preference in respect of all eligible surgery.
Transfusion Performance Benchmarking
Consideration be given to standardising and benchmarking transfusion performance between hospitals in order to deliver better patient blood management
Transfusion 2024 Review Progress
Review of progress towards the Transfusion 2024 recommendations: Progress in implementation of the Transfusion 2024 recommendations be reviewed, and next steps be determined and promulgated; and that in Scotland the …
Transfusion Laboratory Staffing
Transfusion laboratories: Transfusion laboratories should be staffed (and resourced) adequately to meet the requirements of their functions.
Training in Transfusion Medicine
Training in Transfusion Medicine: That those bodies concerned with undergraduate and postgraduate training across the UK of those people who are, or intend to be, working in the NHS ensure …
Implementing SHOT Reports
Implementing SHOT reports: That all NHS organisations across the UK have a mechanism in place for implementing recommendations of Serious Hazard of Transfusion (SHOT) reports, which should be professionally mandated, …
Transfusion Outcome Framework
Establishing the outcome of every transfusion: That a framework be established for recording outcomes for recipients of blood components. That those records be used by NHS bodies to improve transfusion …
NHSBT Transfusion Outcome Funding
Establishing the outcome of every transfusion: To the extent that the funding for digital transformation does not already cover the setting up and operation of this framework, bespoke funding should …
Blood Tracking Systems Funding
Establishing the outcome of every transfusion: That funding for the provision of enhanced electronic clinical systems in relation to blood transfusion be regarded as a priority across the UK.
Pre-1996 Transfusion Testing
When doctors become aware that a patient has had a blood transfusion prior to 1996, that patient should be offered a blood test for Hepatitis C.
HCV Testing for Pre-1991 Transfusion Recipients
The Scottish Government takes all reasonable steps to offer an HCV test to everyone in Scotland who had a blood transfusion before September 1991 and who has not been tested …