Unmet Needs for Blood Transfusion Survey

This survey on unmet blood needs is conducted among the blood establishments and blood banks, which includes the hospital based, standalone and those run by charitable organisations, mainly in the middle- and low-income countries.

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The blood supply chain starts with the blood donor and ends with the patient, but ultimately it is the requirement for blood by the patient that drives the chain and hence the number of blood donations required. Various factors affect the blood supply chain; the number of donors who are willing to donate regularly, seasonal factors affecting donation e.g. public holidays, the blood services ability to adequately predict the number of units of blood required throughout the year and to ensure that they do not overstock and therefore increase wastage, the clinicians' awareness of appropriate blood ordering and transfusion and the hospital laboratories ability to ensure sufficient stock yet have minimal wastage. It is essential that all staff working in each area of the blood supply chain is aware of their responsibilities to ensure minimal wastage of this freely given resource. Therefore education and training and data collection are important elements of the blood supply chain.

 

Current Leadership

Rada M. Grubovic Rastvorceva

Rada M. Grubovic Rastvorceva

Blood Supply Management WP Chair, Consultant in Transfusion Medicine and Hematology, SPM, European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and HealthCare (EDQM), Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France; Associate Professor, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University Goce Delcev, Stip, N. Macedonia

Demewoz Tadesse

Demewoz Tadesse

BSM WP Secretary, Medical Director , Ethiopian Blood & Tissue Bank, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Annual Report 

Click the link below to read the Report of the Blood Supply Management Working Party for 2024/2025.