Safe Transfusion Practice helps healthcare workers to perform their important role in the transfusion process, supporting them to provide high standards of care to patients, improve transfusion practice and minimise the risk to patients.

All NHS staff who are involved in the transfusion process should undertake this course where relevant to their role. This includes doctors, nurses and midwives, operating department practitioners, clinical support workers, phlebotomists, porters, biomedical scientists and medical laboratory assistants.

Sessions:

1. Haemovigilance in the UK and Republic of Ireland
2. Blood Group Serology
3. Requesting Procedures
4. Sampling Procedures
5. Collection Procedures
6. Adminstration Procedures
7. Management of Transfused Patient
8. Laboratory

Blood Components and Indications for Use helps you to practise evidence-based transfusion. It includes the constituents of blood components, summarises the indications for use, the therapeutic benefits and risks, and the management of adverse events.

This course is suitable for doctors, nurses and midwives, operating department practitioners and blood transfusion trainers. You need to ensure you successfully complete Safe Transfusion Practice before you start Blood Components and Indications for use.

Sessions:

1. Safe and Appropriate Transfusion Practice
2. Blood Group Serology
3. Red Blood Cells
4. Platelets
5. Plasma Components
6. Massive Transfusion
7. Plasma Derivatives
8. Adverse Effects of Transfusion

The UK Blood Safety and Quality Regulations (as amended) (BSQR 2005) impose legal requirements on hospital transfusion laboratories to establish and maintain a quality system based on Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).

This course provides a basic understanding of the principles of GMP for people who work in the hospital transfusion laboratory.

Sessions:

1. Quality Management System
2. Personnel
3. Documentation
4. Premises and Equipment
5. Quality Control
6. Service Provision
7. Contracts and Analyses
8. Complaints and Blood Component Recall
9. Audit

Safe Transfusion Practice (Paediatrics) incorporates sessions 1 to 7 from "Safe Transfusion Practice" above. It is provided as an alternative course for healthcare workers in the paediatric setting.

The Anti-D Clinical course covers pathophysiology, management of routine and non-routine care during pregnancy, informed decision making and administration of anti-D immunoglobulin.

This course is aimed primarily at clinicians (obstetricians), midwives, nurses and general practitioners.

Sessions:

1. Understanding Maternal Senitisation
2. Anti-D Prophyaxis
3. Management of Pregnancies at Increased Risk
4. Anti-D - Routine Use
5. Anti-D _ Informed Decision Making
6. Anti-D - Safe Storage and Administraton

The Anti-D Laboratory course covers routine laboratory testing in pregnancy and the role of the laboratory in anti-D prophylaxis and anti-D sensitised pregnancies.

This course is aimed primarily at biomedical scientists working in haematology and transfusion laboratories, clinicians (obstericians), midwives, nurses and general practioners.

Sessions:

1. Understanding Maternal Senitisation
2. Anti-D Prophyaxis
3. Routine Laboratory Testing in Pregnancy
4. The Role of the Laboratory in Anti-D Prophylaxis
5. The Role of the Laboratory in Anti-D Sensitised Pregnancies

Learn Cell Salvage is designed to offer any learner the opportunity to gain a broad understanding of the principles of cell salvage and increase your awareness of a range of blook conservation of intraoperative cell salvage (ICS) and postoperative cell salvage (PCS).

This course is aimed primarily at doctors, nurses, operating department practitioners, cell salvage operators, clinical perfusionists, and clinical support workers.

One session split into four units:

1. Basic Blood Facts
2. Blood Conservation
3. Intraoperative Cell Salvage
4. Postoperative Cell Salvage (PCS)