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Transfusion Interest Group (TIG) Forum

This Discussion Forum aims to provide an avenue for Transfusion practitioners from Victoria and Tasmania to privately discuss current issues and clinical views in transfusion to inform and support transfusion practice improvements.

If you would like to become a member of this forum please contact Lisa.Stevenson@dhs.vic.gov.au

Current members can access the forum through the following link.
Transfusion Interest Group (TIG) Forum

External

These links go to relevant sites outside the Victorian Government Health Information domain, and will open in a new window.

American Association of Blood Banks
Professional Association

Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care

Australian New Zealand Association of Blood Transfusion
Professional Association

Australian Red Cross Blood Service - home

Australian Red Cross Blood Service - clinical

Better Blood Transfusion Programme
Initiative set up by the National Health Service of Scotland

Better Safer Transfusion Practice - University of Melbourne online course website

British Blood Transfusion Society

British Society for Haematology

California Blood Bank Association

Canadian Blood Services

Canadian Society for Transfusion Medicine

Clinical Practice guidelines- NHMRC
Link to on-line NHMRC guidelines

Clinical Risk Management
Homepage for the clinical risk management department within the Victorian DHS.

Clinical risk management
Free website for patient safety in Australia and Clinical Risk Management worldwide. This site has been established to assist health care professionals to network clinical risks and patient safety solutions.

Commonwealth Serum Laboratories
The CSL group of companies develops, manufactures, and markets pharmaceutical products of biological origin

UK Department of Health publications bibliography
Link to UK Department publications bibliography

Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Area of QualityHealthCare.org addresses that addresses patient safety. It features a variety of change concepts, measures, resources, improvement stories, and tools to download to help improve care.

Institute of Biomedical Science

International Society for Blood Transfusion

National Blood Authority Australia

National Blood Service (UK)

The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne Website: 'Blood Transfusion'

On the state of public health 2003
Annual report of the UK Chief Medical Officer. Includes section relating to Blood transfusion, "A precious gift".

Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)-Transfusion Transmitted Injuries (TTI) Section
Reporting of errors and adverse events relating to transfusion in Canada, including education tools.

Serious Hazards of Transfusion
Reporting of errors and adverse events relating to transfusion in the UK.

Scottish intercollegiate guidelines network

Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service

Specialist Practitioners of Transfusion
Professional Association for transfusion nurses. Includes the Hospital Transfusion Nurse Forum

The British Committee for standards in haematology guidelines
Provides access to BCSH guidelines and information on work in progress

UK Blood Transfusion and Tissue Transplantation Guidelines
Site presents the guidelines for the Blood Transfusion Service in the United Kingdom

Victorian Quality Council

World Health Organisation Blood transfusion safety

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