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What blood establishments, blood banks and manufacturers of blood products need to do to ensure the safety and quality of blood and blood products.
You can claim relief to pay no Customs Duty and VAT if you're importing therapeutic substances of human origin, blood-grouping or tissue-typing reagents, or related packaging, solvents and accessories.
Information about licences, regulations and safety related to human blood and blood products, including blood and tissue donations from the human body.
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.
Licences and regulations for organisations that handle human blood or blood products and reporting adverse incidents with blood through SABRE.
Guidance for hospitals, tissue establishments and fertility clinics for ensuring the quality and safety of human organs, tissues and cells (including reproductive cells).
The NHSBT and UKHSA surveillance programme is a series of national schemes that monitors infection in blood, tissue and organ donors, and transfusion recipients.
The epidemiology, symptoms, diagnosis and management of human T-cell lymphotropic virus types 1 and 2 (HTLV-1 and HTLV-2).
Leading scientists at the independent Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) have confirmed that albumin, a critically important medicine for the NHS, can now be safely derived from UK plasma donors.
Apply online for an export health certificate (EHC) to export blood products from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) to the EU or move them to Northern Ireland.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export blood products to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
The UK blood services tests all blood donations for HTLV. The register describes the epidemiology of HTLV among these donors.
Form (S41) for requesting adenovirus testing in whole blood by the blood borne virus unit (BBVU).
The Brucella Reference Unit (BRU) provides laboratory diagnostic and clinical management services for Brucella species.
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