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Guidance for hospitals, tissue establishments and fertility clinics for ensuring the quality and safety of human organs, tissues and cells (including reproductive cells).
Guidance for hospital blood banks on issuing blood components electronically in line with best practice.
What blood establishments, blood banks and manufacturers of blood products need to do to ensure the safety and quality of blood and blood products.
Information on preventing and controlling the exposure of emergency service personnel to common blood-borne viruses.
The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is running a Market Exploration to explore the Non-Compressible Haemorrhage (NCH) environment. To understand who is doing work in this area and possible novel solutions of treatmen…
Updated recommendations from SaBTO's virology review subcommittee on seasonal influenza and the use of organs for donation.
A mathematical model to estimate the number of cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) that could be caused by transfusions of blood products.
Guidance to hospital blood banks (HBBs) on flexible approaches to requirements
Recommendations from the SaBTO occult hepatitis B infection (OBI) working group to introduce additional hepatitis B virus (HBV) testing.
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