Best Practice Initiatives
- Australian Red Cross Blood Service - Transfusion Medicine
The Australian Red Cross Blood Service Transfusion Medicine web site includes a resource library which includes links to the NHMRC 'Clinical Practice Guidelines', the 'Transfusion Pocket Guides' and access to the 'Transfusion Medicine Manual'.
- Blood Matters
Blood Matters is a Victorian state government program in collaboration with the Australian Red Cross Blood Service for improving the quality and safety of hospital transfusion care to patients. This site includes transfusion tools, transfusion audits, haemovigilance system, publications, consumer information, and Transfusion Nurse Contacts. The Blood Matters program also coordinates a Post Graduate Certificate in Transfusion Practice for training of Transfusion Nurses, further information available through this site.
- Bloodsafe
The BloodSafe Program aims to improve the safety, quality and efficiency of the clinical use of blood and blood products in metropolitan and country hospitals through the use of a multi-disciplinary approach across nursing, pathology and medicine to cover all aspects of blood supply and management. BloodSafe is an ongoing collaboration between the South Australia Department of Health, the Transfusion Medicine Unit of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service, South Australian public hospitals and their transfusion service providers. BloodSafe activities extend to the private sector with projects focusing on hospital protocols and inventory management.
- Clinical Excellence Commission (NSW)
This web site provides access to information about the Clinical Excellence Commission including contact details, projects and programs, publications and helpful links.
- Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (SABM)
This web site provides information on SABM as well as access to resources, for members of the public and patients, on blood management options. A medical professional page on this site provides access to books and publications, a reference library as well as a slide bank. This slide bank, reviewed by the SABM Education Committee, provides an excellent resource for professional and education presentations.
