Best Practice Initiatives
- Australian Red Cross Blood Service - Transfusion Medicine
This web site includes manuals, guidelines, standards and other resources relevant to transfusion medicine.
- 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. As part of this initiative to support appropriate use of blood components the South Australia Government has also introduced an e-learning program.
- 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.
- Queensland Blood Management Program
The Queensland Blood Management Program’s ‘Effective Blood Use’ strategy aims to ensure blood and blood products are utilised carefully for maximum patient benefit. It is acknowledges that effective blood use will also support the sustainability of the blood supply into the future. The strategy currently has several elements. These include the devolvement of the public blood budget to the local control and management of Queensland’s seventeen Health Service Districts, a pilot scheme to deploy specialised Transfusion Nurses to coordinate effective use initiatives at Qld high blood volume usage public hospitals, and the development of an Effective Blood Use Framework. The Framework is a 15 module collection of information, resources and tools for blood sector professionals.
- Western Australia Patient Blood Management Program
Patient blood management (PBM) is a new standard of care in medicine and surgery to manage and conserve a patient's own blood, reducing reliance on the donor blood supply. The priority of patient blood management is the management and preservation of patients' own blood. Donor blood is reserved for use only with patient consent and where there is evidence that it will be beneficial, or where there are no other options and the risks have been considered and balanced against the benefits. PBM will be implemented across the entire WA public health system over the next five years. Local, national and international experts in the field of PBM will lead an education program to familiarise doctors, nurses, scientists and other allied health professionals with this new standard of care.
- 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.
- Best Practice Tools
