Resources Library

NHSBT Guidance for New and Developing Transfusion Practitioners

2023 edition

British Columbia Blood Coordinating Office (Canada) handbook for new TPs

Jeffrey L Carson et al, 2023 Oct JAMA

Thalassemias, Sickle cell disease and other variant hemoglobins

Australia and New Zealand transfusion medicine guidelines, position papers and consensus statements

EBA position papers and fact sheets

UK guidance for blood services, including component specification, preparation, testing and donor selection for blood and tissues.

BSH site with a wide range of guidelines, position papers and good practice papers on clinical and laboratory aspects of transfusion, haematology and haemostasis.

Multiple barriers to the safety and availability of blood components for transfusion were identified in the 2015 Global Database on Blood Safety, many of which derive from weak regulatory oversight, insufficient financing, and fragmentation of the national blood system. Centralization of key functions of the blood service within a limited number of blood establishments, particularly testing and processing of blood donations, can overcome several shortcomings that often exist in decentralized blood systems that are highly fragmented.

Canadian Paediatric Society