Traceability

By law blood bank is required to document evidence of the fate of every blood component received by the Trust. If blood or blood components are administered to a patient, it is the clinical areas responsibility to record this evidence in PICS or the area’s blood registers/transfusion record. All blood components that are not transfused must be returned to blood bank as soon as possible with appropriate documentation (form WNP 0606; authority to collect/return blood or blood components). The law requires 100% traceability and Blood Bank audits, reports and monitors compliance on a continuous basis. Issues of non-compliance are reported to the Trust’s Hospital Transfusion Committee on a quarterly basis and to the MHRA in an annual return.