UKTLC Survey-2019

[Rashmi]

Thank you for completing the UKTLC Survey 2019. We had approx 70% response (allowing for some responses covering multiple sites). The draft results with be out around June once analysed.

On a separate note, at the UKTLC meeting last week, some of the key actions to help our laboratory teams revolves around improving communication and support across the UK. It appears that we don’t have a reliable email contact list for our TLMs to share information with, which is quite surprising.
Additionally, we acknowledge your concerns around the qualification section of the Standards, and there will be information on demonstrating equivalence in the revision. The purpose of the standards is for all of us to work towards meeting the requirements over time, nothing is ever perfect , but these help with future planning, resourcing and is part of the continuous improvement process for us all. I apologies for not updating these last year, but I believe this delay (unintentional!) will result in a more inclusive document.

Key tasks for UKTLC:
1. Creating a robust communication pathway between UKTLC organisations and all transfusion teams (including TPs etc), but to begin the focus on the labs as this is where there appears to be concerning gaps.
2. Producing a regular newsletter with sections on best practices and general guidance- if you have any ideas for this please let me know.

As TLMs/ Lab teams are still not well represented at the annual SHOT meeting- this is a good opportunity to improve on this in July, please reserve the date. The Lab Chapter group, which includes UKTLC- has a meet the experts table, so do come and say hello.

Many thanks again,
Best wishes
Rashmi

[Rashmi]

Dear All,
Please see link below to the UKTLC 2019 Survey findings. The link will take you to the SHOT UK website.
You may find some of the data useful for your staffing capacity plans/ business cases- feel free to use, but if you can please cross-reference to this report.

https://www.shotuk.org/wp-content/up...mary-final.pdf

Thank you for participating this year, and you will be relieved to know that taking into consideration some of your comments the next monitoring survey will be in 2022 and not biennial ! so there is lots of time for you to suggest some questions for the UKTLC to consider .

Many thanks!