Hospital Transfusion Practitioners

Blood transfusion is a generally safe procedure, which if used appropriately, will save lives or improve quality of life in a range of clinical conditions.  However, blood transfusion is recognised as a complex, multi- step process that crosses several professional boundaries and involves many individuals. 

Transfusion Practitioners promote safe and effective transfusion practice in a variety of ways including:

• Providing transfusion education to clinical colleagues
• Providing transfusion information for patients and families
• Risk management including writing, implementing, updating and monitoring local policies and procedures
• Monitoring and providing feedback on activities related to compliance with best practice guidelines including audit
• Transfusion incident management including investigation
• Haemovigilance follow-up and reporting activities
• Managing appropriate use of blood and blood inventory
• Implementing PBM (patient blood management) strategies.