title: UK Transfusion Laboratory Collaborative: minimum standards for staff qualifications, training, competency and the use of information technology in hospital transfusion laboratories 2014.
abstract: The SHOT Adverse Incident Reporting Scheme has consistently reported an unacceptably high level of errors originating in the laboratory setting. In 2006 an initiative was launched in conjunction with the IBMS, SHOT, RCPath, BBTS, UK NEQAS, the NHSE NBTC and the equivalents in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that led to the formation of the UK TLC. The UK TLC in considering the nature and spread of the errors documented by SHOT concluded that a significant proportion of these errors were most likely to be related to either the use of information technology or staff education, staffing levels, skill mix, training and competency issues. In the absence of any formal guidance on these matters, the UK TLC developed a series of recommendations using the results of two laboratory surveys conducted in 2007 and 2008.
authors.affiliation: West Herts Hospitals NHS Trust, UK NEQAS BTLP, Watford, UK.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chaffe
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Glencross
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Staves
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Capps-Jenner
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mistry
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bolton-Maggs
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McQuade
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Asher
mesh_terms: D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000592:standards*; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D008297:Male; D019221:Mandatory Reporting; D008490:Medical Informatics; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D065227:Transfusion Reaction; D006113:United Kingdom