Transfusion Practitioners Tools

The Australian Blood Matters has developed audit tools and facilitated many audits addressing topical issues, including audits of blood use, acute transfusion reaction management, consent for blood transfusion, policy, procedure and administrative practices, and anaemia assessment.

Lifeblood’s unique Audit Tool provides health professionals with free easy-to-use online audits.

The National Comparative Audit of Blood Transfusion (NCABT) is a programme of clinical audits which looks at the use and administration of blood and blood components in NHS and independent hospitals in England. We also invite participation from our sister blood services in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The Blood Matters Program is a Victorian Government program run in collaboration with the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood (formerly Blood Service) that aims to support and enhance best practice in patient blood management (PBM), and the stewardship of blood and blood products, for improved patient outcomes in Victorian health services.

The UK independent, professionally-led haemovigilance scheme

TRIP stands for “Transfusion and Transplantation Reactions in Patients”. Our mission is to receive and analyse reports of adverse reactions and adverse events associated with blood transfusion or with the application of human tissues or cells. TRIP also promotes hemovigilance and biovigilance in the widest sense, throughout the chain from donor to recipient, in order to contribute to improved safety of transfusion and transplantation in The Netherlands.

IHN brings together individuals and organisations from around the world with an interest in haemovigilance, for the purposes of education and support.

The Blood Matters Serious Transfusion Incidents Reporting (STIR, from Victoria, Australia) system aims to provide information to health services to improve recognition and management of transfusion risks.