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SHOT Webinars SHOT and NCA joint Webinar – Tuesday 15 February 2022  14:00-15:00 GMT Highlights from the recent National Comparative Audits of Blood Transfusion The National Comparative Audit (NCA) of Blood Transfusion is the largest programme of clinical audits of blood transfusion in the world and is funded by NHS Blood and Transplant in England. Please join us […]

SHOT Webinars – Serious Hazards of Transfusion (shotuk.org)

https://www.shotuk.org/resources/current-resources/webinars/ The recording of the SHOT webinar on Transfusion in Haemopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients is now available to access via the website

New illustration capturing haemovigilance vein to vein.

Apologies from the SHOT team – due to a clash with another meeting we have taken the decision to move our webinar to a later date – we hope you will still be able to join us! Every Minute Counts  –  SHOT, BBTS and NBTC joint Webinar – Friday 3 December 2021  13:00-14:00 GMT Please join us for […]

Transfusion in Haemopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Patients Webinar 2021 Tuesday 19 October 2021 | 13:00-14:00 BST (UTC+1) Please join us for our webinar covering the principles of safe transfusion in HSCT patients, including learning from adverse event and near miss reporting to SHOT. We will include some illustrative case studies to highlight key learning points. […]

  UK TRANSFUSION GUIDANCE FOR SAMPLE TUBE SHORTAGES 13 September 2021 This is the UK transfusion guidance for safe transfusions during period of blood sample tube shortages. This document has been developed collaboratively by NBTC Emergency Planning Working Group, SHOT and RCPath Transfusion SAC, with input from BSH Transfusion Task Force. This guidance document should […]

The foldable summaries are now available to order on the following website under stock code blc789-1 https://hospital.nhsbtleaflets.co.uk/ This is a new leaflet ordering site set up in July so anyone accessing it for the first time will need to set up a new account – log-in details saved from the previous site won’t work. Please […]

The SHOT Team, in collaboration with The Royal College of Pathologists, National Blood Transfusion Committee and British Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, published the Safe transfusions in haemopoietic stem cell transplant recipients guidance document in July 2021. The document has now been updated to include instructions for CMV matching for granulocytes.

We are looking for expressions of interest to join our Working Expert Group in the following areas: Avoidable, Delayed or Under/Overtransfusion (ADU) and Incidents Related to Prothrombin Complex Concentrate (PCC) Adverse Events Related to Anti-D Immunoglobulin (Ig) Near Miss (NM) Reporting Applicants should state how they have expertise in this area, provide a CV to […]