Training and education needs

[Robert Reilly]

Hi Rasmi,
The UKTLC minum standard for staffing a Transfusion lab 2014; has it that staff who work in the BT lab unsupervised must spend a minimum of 10 days a year in the BT lab during the routine day, has there been any amendments to this or is this still the current standard? I have seen no chnge as at 2016, but not clear on what is said last year.
Regards
Bobby

[Rashmi]

Hi Bobby
The only Standards that exist are the 2014 ones- prior to this date these were recommendations. The TLC group is meeting in a few weeks to agree on any changes, and these will be cascaded to the transfusion community in July. The process of updating and ratifying changes with the collaborative organisations, as you can appreciate, can take a while.

However, it is very unlikely there will be changes to the following :
3.10 In order to maintain their skills, it is expected that all members of staff currently in post who work unsupervised in a blood transfusion laboratory at any time, but who are not permanently established in blood transfusion will complete at least 10 working days per annum of supervised working in a hospital blood transfusion laboratory.

Thanks for posting on the forum Bob, please keep discussing things here, we all learn a bit more this way. BTW- did the message about the 2018 Blood Compliance Report- now being available cascade throughout the TADG groups? ( see section Regulatory Inspections, where there is info & link).

best wishes

[Robert Reilly]

Thank You Rashmi, this is very helpful. I'll refer and update our SOP in relation to working in the BT lab.
Bobby