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  • Blood: authorisations and safety reporting

    Licences and regulations for organisations that handle human blood or blood products and reporting adverse incidents with blood through SABRE.

    • From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
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  • Quality and safety of human organs, tissues and cells

    Guidance for hospitals, tissue establishments and fertility clinics for ensuring the quality and safety of human organs, tissues and cells (including reproductive cells).

    • From: Department of Health and Social Care
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  • Quality and safety of human blood and blood products

    What blood establishments, blood banks and manufacturers of blood products need to do to ensure the safety and quality of blood and blood products.

    • From: Department of Health and Social Care
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  • Occult hepatitis B infection in UK blood donors

    Recommendations from the SaBTO occult hepatitis B infection (OBI) working group to introduce additional hepatitis B virus (HBV) testing.

    • From: Department of Health and Social Care
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  • Organ donation and seasonal flu

    Updated recommendations from SaBTO's virology review subcommittee on seasonal influenza and the use of organs for donation.

    • From: Department of Health and Social Care
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  • vCJD transmission by blood components: risk assessment

    A mathematical model to estimate the number of cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) that could be caused by transfusions of blood products.

    • From: Department of Health and Social Care
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  • Information for hospital blood banks during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

    Guidance to hospital blood banks (HBBs) on flexible approaches to requirements

    • From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
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  • Electronic issue of blood components

    Guidance for hospital blood banks on issuing blood components electronically in line with best practice.

    • From: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
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  • Blood-borne viruses: managing potential risk in emergency workers

    Information on preventing and controlling the exposure of emergency service personnel to common blood-borne viruses.

    • From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
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