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NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is responsible for the supply of blood, organs, tissues and stem cells. It collects and supplies blood to hospitals in England and is the organ donation organisation for the UK. NHSBT is a special health...
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is a special health authority of the English National Health Service (NHS).
Find out how to make an import or export declaration for human organs, blood, blood products, tissues and cells needed for emergency transplant or transfusion.
Register your decision on the NHS Organ Donor Register. This will give your loved ones the certainty they need to support your choice.
Claim relief from Customs Duty and VAT when importing organs and other substances of human origin into the UK for emergency transplant or transfusion.
Find out when you need to tell DVLA if you have had a heart transplant - download the correct forms to tell DVLA
The NHSBT and UKHSA surveillance programme is a series of national schemes that monitors infection in blood, tissue and organ donors, and transfusion recipients.
SaBTO advice and recommendations on the risk of cancer being transmitted by an organ transplant, following a review of the evidence.
Review of how to deliver better value for public money in the service provided by the NHSBT to secure the safe supply of blood to the NHS.
Automation is the future for manufacturing stem cells, says the Head of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s UK Stem Cell Bank (UKSCB) on its 20th Anniversary.
The NHSBT / PHE epidemiology unit, and the epidemiology of infections among blood, tissue and organ donors and recipients.
Information on the safety of transplanting human organs, tissues and cells from the advisory committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs (SaBTO).
Details recommendations to improve organ utilisation across the UK.
SaBTO report on the use of organs for transplantation from donors with primary brain tumours
Guidelines from SaBTO on measures to protect patients from getting hepatitis E through transfusion or transplantation.
SaBTO advice for when an organ donor is found to have been infected with West Nile virus.
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