Policies, documents and guidelines

Our transfusion practitioners work with a multidisciplinary team, including medical, lab and nursing staff, to develop and update policies and guidelines covering transfusion issues.

Policies, documents and guidelines developed

Examples of the policies we produce include:

• clinical transfusion policy
• special requirements guidelines
• major haemorrhage policy (both adult and paediatric practice)
• refusal of blood policy
• emergency blood management arrangements policy

You can find policies for your area on your local health board intranet site.

Policies, documents and guidelines available

• National Transfusion Record
• O Positive to O Negative fact sheet
• Emergency Blood Management Arrangements

Policies, documents and guidelines in development

• Clinical Transfusion Policy

Future developments

• Special Requirement guidelines
• Refusal of Blood policy